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South Africa legalizes gay marriage
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From
18/11/2006 16:51:06
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
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18/11/2006 16:27:06
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>>>Sure doesn't. It's only my doubt that when we say "this is natural and that is not" we actually don't have a clue what nature thinks. We only express our... prejudice, preference, opinion or just our narrow view on common sense.
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>>In George Bernard Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra the Egyptian priests are explaining a custom to Caesar, much to the horror of his secretary ( a Briton - whom GBS uses to satyrize the attitudes of the British middle class )
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>>Caesar, whose age and experience has given him a more cosmopolitan view, says to the Egyptian high priest:
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>>"Forgive him, Theodotus, for he is a barbarian and, like all members of his race he thinks that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature."
>
>Perfect!

Oh. Right. Throwing people onto a stage to be mauled by wild animals was "cosmopolitan"? :)
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