To claim, as Burwell did in Wednesday's column, that marriage is defined and given meaning by a couple's ability to have (heterosexual) sex - and subsequent offspring - is absurd.
Dear Facebook,
The column supporting the anti-gay marriage amendment is a disappointing rehash of illogical arguments.
I will vote against the marriage amendment simply because of Benjamin Burwell's ridiculous column. Essentially, what is a marriage? It is a couple's declaration of commitment. For some it is toward the church, but for all it is toward the government. Therefore, whatever the pope said about marriage doesn't matter to a majority of people. What right does he, or any church, have to define such a term in a country of free thought and religion?
The mortgage crisis has dealt a major blow to the Sunshine State's real estate market, affecting everyone in the process.
What Benjamin Burwell doesn't realize is that the so-called "Marriage Protection Amendment" in Florida has nothing to do with gay marriage. In Florida, same-sex marriage is already banned by two state laws and a state court decision.
The debate over gay marriage is not the civil rights movement of our generation.
The saying goes, "you are what you eat." Well if that's the case, everyone should be having an identity crisis.
On Friday, Florida4Marriage.org submitted the last few thousand signatures required to get a proposed state amendment banning gay marriage on the November ballot.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey still isn't sure if the interrogation practice known as waterboarding - where an individual is strapped down with a rag placed over the nose and mouth while water is poured over the rag to simulate drowning - constitutes torture. That is, unless he were to be subjected to it.
Kudos to the Alligator. Finally an objective analysis of the transgender ordinance and what it really means. Everything else I have read has been slanted and inciting.
UF has to cut $16 million come July 1, when officials project the total drop in recurring state support will be $47.2 million.Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University expects to lose another $4.6 million this year, and Florida State University anticipates a reduction of programs and a hiring freeze because of new cuts in the $16 million to $18 million range. The Board of Governors, facing $147 million in cuts to the state university system this year alone, gave university presidents the go-ahead last month to lay off faculty members, slash enrollment and take other actions to salvage their budgets.
Do you keep up with the news? Are all your friends tired of hearing you talk about the upcoming election or the latest campus scandal? Would you like to have a say in what goes into the Alligator?
Shakespeare once wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Truly it is the substance of the rose - not the name given - that makes it the beautiful flower it is. But what if we took the opposite approach? Would calling a dandelion a rose make it smell sweet? Of course not. There is much in a name.
It's not my problem if irresponsible people have to try to finish their essays one hour before their class.
The editorial condemning the Writing on the Wall Project was actually proof of its importance. As the editorial stated, we don't live in a perfect world - the sad truth is that discrimination and intolerance are still very prevalent and very real threats everywhere and to the Gainesville community. An even sadder truth is that while some will experience intolerance, there will always be some that never will.
Imagine that one day you are strolling toward University Avenue, about to grab a bite to eat before your 1:55 class, when it hits you: that first paper is due in an hour.
In a perfect world, our wall would end racism and cure intolerance. Obviously, that is a ridiculous goal, and that has never been our intention.
The recent ruling of the Gainesville City Commission to approve an ordinance protecting transgender residents from discrimination at local businesses was not a revolutionary move - the commission is just keeping up with the times.
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