[Russ]

Much like your dire warnings for the fall of society should gay marriages be premitted. Hypothetical is ok when you want to use it, but should someone else use it you see it like an escape hatch. You, nor anyone else in this thread, has provided any specific description of the sort of woe we would face? At the end of the day, I cannot see you providing any concrete justification for your viewpoint, merely constant rhetoric.

Just giving my opinion of what I feel would happen. Were you doing that?

Apparently he can never dare to tell you that your beliefs are wrong? That would cover the situation even were he presenting you with his reasons why you were wrong.

Erm, thanks for helping me prove my point there! I was responding to his confrontational attitude where he said "I've got news for you - you're wrong". Now if you can show me ANY situation where I've been as direct and disrespectful as that, I'll give an unreserved apology. But if you can't, will you come back and post that you are trying to read something in to my opinions which isn't there for some unknown reason? If I felt, for example, Buddism was wrong and a practitioner of that faith was on here, do you really think I'm the type of person who says to him/her "Sorry to tell you this, but you're wrong"? No, if it came down to that I would point out where I felt they were incorrect and tell them I respect their right to hold that belief but would disagree on certain points. It's a big no-no to come straight out and say "you're wrong" like Kronas did. I'm not objecting to him thinking I'm wrong, it's the WAY he said it.

I don`t know, have you ever told someone that there views are wrong? You've now said you'd be perfectly willing to do so provided you could sugar-coat your responses first.

So I can't give my own opinion without, as you call it, "sugar coating" it?