Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Liberal vs Conservative: 24 Hours Side By Side" video.

  1. I respect adherence to Divine Authority as a guide. It's survived for millennia, which speaks to the power of its truths. But a regimen for tribal survival in the Bronze Age is subject to some minor revision, 3,000 years later. Don't scrap it. But maybe admit that some of the writers of the version of the Bible that you read had their own axes to grind and their own prejudices. The earliest writers came along centuries after the fact as it was. MY version of the Bible got re-worked by scholars under King James. I don't know about yours. Grain of salt for all that stuff, especially the bashing babies' heads against the wall and "proper treatment of slaves" stuff that SHOULD be universally rejected. Homosexuality is one of those things we can be more like Jesus and less Old-Testament about, in my opinion. But it was good advice back in the day, given the promiscuity of males, in general, and homosexuals, in particular. It was a danger to a small tribe with no understanding of medicine, but enough sense to tie venereal disease to rutting males. In the current era, gay marriage should be no big deal. We should ENCOURAGE gay couples to be monogamous, given what we now know about disease and its spread, and the way health and retirement benefits are tied to family members of workers. I don't much care for HETERO couples to get a tax break just for making babies, for that matter. But a couple that's together for decades in the same house, with one the earner and one the home-maker, it sure makes sense to give them the same rights as hetero couples with respect to health and pension.
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