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Aug 28, 2012, 11:19 AM | Updated: 11:20 am

I love getting thoughtful emails from listeners and I often respond. Here’s a great exchange I had recently on same-sex marriage. I’d like to know how you’re wrestling with this issue, which will be on your ballot November 6th.

Read from the bottom up … you know how email works.

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From: Bill Radke
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:40 PM

The heart and soul and core of the family not in my opinion but in yours, Sean, and that’s great for you but not for imposing on others. Now, you could say that makes everything subjective — who can say then that murder is wrong? The key is – consenting adults. If it’s consenting adults, I lean toward liberty and limited government. Always good to not budge with you!
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From: [NAME AND EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:01 PM
To: Bill Radke
Subject: Re: Instant Message from MyNorthwest.com

But it’s the heart and soul and core of the Family, Bill — and the world’s value of and appreciation for and acknowledgement of the significance of the Family is turning to dust in the wind. Anything goes, I guess, and there’s lots of slope left, beyond this issue.
And you may not, but MANY do consider (or at least claim to) any opposition to gay marriage, by default, as hate, intolerance, oppression and discrimination.
I think we’ve traded emails on this before and I don’t think either of us is budging…

– [NAME REMOVED]

 

On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Bill Radke <bradke@973kiro.com>> wrote:

Thanks, [NAME REMOVED]~
I don’t take it as intolerant or hateful at all.
Marrying someone way younger than you — different marriage from someone way older … Kids vs no kids … Getting married young vs old … First time versus fifth time … Dual income vs one stay-at-home … Marrying someone of another race … In a church vs out … Merging your funds vs keeping them separate. All different, all legal. I realize the gender difference is traditional and it’s really important to you and a lot of other people. But two genders are necessary for baby-making, not marriage or being a parent. And one doesn’t necessarily imply another
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From: [NAME AND EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:13 AM
To: Bill Radke
Subject: Re: Instant Message from MyNorthwest.com<
http://MyNorthwest.com>

Thanks for the reply, Bill. But in this context, of course they’re being billed as the same thing. When a societal standard is not maintained that upholds a man/woman marriage as different than/unique from a gay coupling or union, well then yeah, then they’re all the same, right? Or can you tell me how they’d be differentiated? That’s the point. Yes, gay couples SHOULD absolutely have all the same rights as married people — but when you have no term, as I said, that upholds the ages-old definition of word “marriage” as being man/woman, then by default, all “marriages” (if this should pass) would be “the same.” And in terms of a natural standard of a man/woman, mother/father roles, there is and will always be a VERY significant difference.

I simply do not get why the gay community absolutely insists that they be considered the same way as hetero couples — because within the family dynamic, they clearly are not and they never will be. And to a hell of a lot of people, that standard is worth upholding — without denying any rights to gay couples. There’s no hate or intolerance here — it’s just a clear difference that so many people want to seem to erase and ignore, when what the two genders uniquely bring to a family is unequalled any other way and is a very valuable and fundamental part of a family core and dynamic.

I find it sad that the gay community considers the issue of calling their unions “marriage” is more important to society than acknowledging, and maintaining some respect and value for, the roles of mothers and fathers in the family. And our ages-old practice of referring to THOSE relationships as a marriage is how we as a society do that. Otherwise, sir, yeah, I guess we’re all “the same.” But a maple tree is not a pine tree. Both are perfectly fine trees, though.

Just for the record, there’s no hate or in tolerance going on here.

[NAME REMOVED]
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From: Bill Radke <bradke@973kiro.com>>
To: [NAME AND EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:00 AM
Subject: RE: Instant Message from MyNorthwest.com<
http://MyNorthwest.com>

Thanks for the note, [NAME REMOVED]. This is a good example of how both sides are talking past each other. Making different gender couplings legal is not pronouncing them “exactly the same.” I can understand you drawing that implication — I have friends who do — but it’s your interpretation and I don’t share it. Best — Bill

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From: [NAME AND EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:15 AM
To: Bill Radke;
Subject: Instant Message from MyNorthwest.com<http://MyNorthwest.com>

[NAME AND CITY REMOVED]

You asked — I’ll tell you. I just find it sad that there’s such a push to satisfy the whim of a very small minority of our population to redefine a word that has been very established for hundreds if not thousands of years, and which represents what I feel is a VERY important value to society — there’s NO religious base to it — that being the role of a man and a woman in the family dynamic. Gay couples should have ALL the same rights, and their endless claims of “hatred” are really tiresome. But when we say as a society that “we’re all just exactly the same” and a same-sex couple brings the same natural and optimum balance to the family and to the raising of children, we are sliding down the slope, folks.

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