[PLUG-TALK] Visiting from Tacoma

[Michael Robinson]

> > I've lived near Portland for 23+ years.  I have been using Linux for
> > over 10 years.  I am most certainly representative of the Linux users
> > in the greater Portland Metropolitan area.  

> When I lived near the Hampton Roads metro area, I became good friends
> with a number of followers of the Reverend Pat Robertson. Your views
> wouldn't even be representative of the people there.

> > My comments are perfectly
> > legitimate, you don't see me shacking up with a fiancee.

I've shacked up with someone before, I know that it doesn't work.

> You've said that you've never been married. So what do you know of that
> institution besides what you've read?

I've never seen God face to face, but I still believe in him.  Just
because I haven't been married, that doesn't preclude me from having
beliefs and standards concerning marriage.  As far as being different
from the followers of Pat Robertson, of course I am and it is very
rude of you to try and compare all conservatives to Pat Robertson.

> >   If it is
> > appropriate to promote inappropriate sexual activity on plug-talk it
> > is appropriate to discourage it as well.
> 
> I saw no such promotion in Andrew's message. And your follow up to
> Andrew was to attack his fiancee for her culinary choices. Based on your
> biblical citation, it sounds like you're saying that people who do not
> eat meat cannot be Christians.

And God said, "these are good to eat," and he was showing Peter 
animals.  Read the bible before you assume that it supports
vegetarianism.

Andrew promoted shacking up which is just as wrong as homosexuality
activity.  "I got a place at the nines for me any my fiancee."  Did
he get two places at the nines?  He didn't say he did.

> It's quite a followup to your attack on the legitimacy of marriage
> between people who choose to remain childless.

Which is not their choice to make.  If they want to make that choice
for God, they have no business being a couple let alone getting
married.  If you can't leave the decision to produce new life to
God, you aren't ready to marry anyone.