Is this not lovely

I found this for mee_eep, it's inspiring though my muse mind is weak. The patterns are beautiful.


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Article-Same-Sex Marriage Debate Has Roots Going Back Centuries

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100815/sc_livescience/samesexmarriagedebatehasrootsgoingbackcenturies
Same-Sex Marriage Debate Has Roots Going Back Centuries

LiveScience.com Stephanie Pappas
livescience.com – Sun Aug 15, 9:31 am ET( Read more... )

But the first drastic redefinition of marriage in the Western world came from early Christians, Coontz said. At the time, a man could divorce his wife if she failed to bear children. Early Christians disavowed the practice. God had joined the couple together, they said, and a lack of offspring was no excuse to dissolve that bond.

This was "unprecedented," Coontz said. "It was actually Christianity that first took the position that the validity of marriage did not depend on the ability to reproduce." ( Read more... )

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That mosque that they want to build overlooking Ground Zero..
I understand the emotional aspects of it but if everyone would just stop forcing this into the headlines. It probably would have been quietly taken care of by now.

Ironic that in the political climate where state's rights vs. federal rights are being debated that a city's right to decide what goes where is being questioned by people who are not residents of that city. Don't know if the zoning commission for NYC puts religious establishments as being able to be built in commercial/business zoned areas without a waiver or whatever it's called.

Someone more knowledgeable want to provide zoning information?