From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1187">stack</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

Just call me the threadkiller... sorry, all... and especially about the double posting. I've been having issues with my machine... :(<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

Also, I find the whole "appeal to history" for preventing recognition of gay marriage to be ridiculous, because I don't think "historical marriage" is at all something we should aspire to...I don't think many women (and some men) would want to be in a "historical marriage".  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1494">Influence</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

Whoever you are; Stack..I must compliment your writing style. I loved 'Unmasked'...very descriptive...A' class work!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1495">ShadyLady</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

Just a little comment for the Lolliless Gagger...<BR>
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Everyone of course has a right to their own opinion, but I for one am happy to see that the topic of love and equality and the balancing of humanity still has a place on the evening news. I'm all for people sharing and expressing love in a time when all we seem focused on is horror and torture and everything shameful about human nature. The fact that there is progress of a positive light being made by any group or organization right now is, I feel, well worth celebrating. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

interesting thought that was sent in an email today....<BR>
"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?" hhhhhhmmmmm<BR>
CS58<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

It's my understanding that a child CAN read a bible in school.  He or she might not be able to take *classes* in bible study there, because that could be taken as a state-sponsored endorsement of one religion over all the others (or over lacking a religous belief) but I don't think they'd be any more prevented from reading that as any, say, Steven King novel.  <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

Exactly. And why would they even NEED to read a Bible in school?! It has to do with the nature of each particular institution, and the inconvenient fact that we have a Bill of Rights that proscribes against state-sponsored religion. Besides, seems to me that people in lockdown need it a helluva lot more anyway.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

influence ~ 'Never Forget and Wish'...beautiful...just beautiful...awww to be loved like that...thank you for these works of art...and welcome aboard...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1187">Stack</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

darwin! <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.05.18.13.58.28152">safest in the dark </a> well done, very layered for such a short work. I like the edginess of the imagery. I've been there.<BR>
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Thanks for the bump! That's never happened to me before! :D<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1450">Lolly Gaggin</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.05.19.17.13.18677">Nurtured to Death </a> 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

mysteriousone07 ~ i am so sorry that you are hurting...time...time helps the pain but the memory will remain...my heart goes out to you...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1494">Influence</a><BR>
Date: 20 May 2004<P>

Hi this is Influence please excuse this many typos in my last submission: Prayer.<BR>
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Here are the corrections. I apologize.<BR>
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Prayer <BR>
Prayers for the lives of sinners...Quenches an eternity of fire...burning their souls...<BR>
Their mortal beings gravitate to the heat that tortures their bodies...<BR>
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Prayers to heal the sick and the hurting...<BR>
Dries tears of anguish and buries the woes of sorrows<BR>
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Their heart's bleeding...who's grieving at the lost of a loved one...The blood of the Son washes away all sin...<BR>
Thy kingdom Come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven...<BR>
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Whatsoever we bind on earth is bound in Heaven...<BR>
We're set free… free to believe...<BR>
Prayers...of life, of hope, of joy....<BR>
Prayers; we commune with thee Father...Our souls beg for mercy and comfort...<BR>
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I pray for you<BR>
I pray for me, that one day you'll see the light and be free...<BR>
Let thy soul live, let the flesh die and strive for humankind...for their souls to be freed from bondage and never perish...<BR>
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Prayers...grants morality; for just one Wish... <BR>

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