necoandjeff wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> 
>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a constitutional
>>>>>challenge to a 1977 Florida law that bans gays and lesbians from
>>>>>adopting children, the only such state law in the nation."
>>>>>
>>>>>Kevin, you must be a proud bunch to be the only state stupid enough
>>>>>to actually think that gays make unfit parents.
>>>>
>>>>Florida doesn't think anything of the kind. The gays are as free to
>>>>procreate as anyone else.
>>>
>>>
>>>Which just demonstrates how stupid this law really is. To be
>>>consistent with the only remotely socially acceptable
>>>rationalization for such a law (avoiding the psychology harm to
>>>children, for which there isn't a shred of evidence, but it sounds
>>>good enough), it would have to prevent homosexuals from procreating
>>>in addition to adopting.
>>
>>Kind of like how we don't recognize incestuous marriage but do not
>>prevent incestuous procreation. (by artifical means; incestuous sexual
>>intercourse is a crime under Florida law) Please, the argument about
>>"consistency" is a loser.
> 
> 
> Again I have to say, the reason you dislike argument by analogy so much is
> simply that you suck at making analogies...

No, I dislike argument by analogy is that it does not offer deductive 
conclusions.

I'm having trouble seeing the analogy. Could you put it into A:B::C:D 
format for me? That would help.

> Your resting your argument on the
> unwillingness of the legislature to impose forced abortions? Yes, that's
> quite a surprising result isn't it...

I don't know any people who rest their arguments on the unwillingness of 
the legislature to impose forced abortions, so I cannot respond to straw 
man arguments involving them.

>>>But of course Mr. Peterson, the
>>>law's sponsor and Floridian extraodinaire, was kind of enough to
>>>articulate for us the real reason behind the law: "the purpose of
>>>the legislation was to send a message to gays and lesbians that
>>>'we're really tired of you. We wish you'd go back into the closet.'"
>>>Yes, a proud state indeed, that Florida.
>>
>>California should be prouder. It only took two tries to outlaw sex
>>with human corpses.
>>http://tinyurl.com/3njsw
>>
>>Apparently, a man's having sex with the corpse of a four-year-old girl
>>was insufficient to move the legislature.
> 
> 
> I appreciate the fact that your own personal moral outrage regarding the
> behavior of those out on the left coast may be a higher priority for you
> than several hundred living children currently in need of a home in your own
> state, 

"Gee, Officer, why did you pull me over for speeding? Shouldn't you be 
out arresting rapists and murderers?"

 > but would you care to compare the number of heretofore unprosecutable
> cases of necrophilia in California (let's not include those who have sex
> with people they have just killed, since those people are already subject to
> prosecution and fairly harsh penalties, 

I see that you oppose hate-crime legislation. We agree!

> which means we're basically left
> with the odd rogue morgue employee) with the number of kids available for
> adoption or the number of homosexuals in Florida willing to provide a loving
> home to a child in need?

Lots of people are willing to provide a loving home to a child in need. 
That fact does not matter.

- Kevin