The "Line"

Originally Posted by of pom

So can you answer my thing about why loving a person is somehow less important than being able to go inside a room on sunday for a couple of hours?

Actually, you do a good job of making her point for her. She sees it a bit differently than going inside a room for a couple of hours on Sunday, and want's someone for who also shares this significance.

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Originally Posted by Manis Tricuspis

Yeah! So obviously she needs to marry somebody who ALREADY shares those feelings because LAZY!

In our next episode, Alice explains why evangelism is so important!

Look who came out of his den, just to say hi to me.
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I think most of you are being too critical of Alice for a few reasons:

1.) Alice is from a previous generation. A lot of things have changed in 20 years. Racial, cultural, religious, and gender differences are a lot less important than in previous generations, even blurred.

2.) Most of you would 'draw the line' at dating someone who was an evangelical fundamentalist Christian, or who was a rabid pro-war Bush supporter. (And I'm not talking about flings or short-term sexual relationships ... I mean for long-term with potential of raising a family.) It's not because you're closed-minded or intolerant; it's because you have a clear idea what kind of life you want to have.

I know it's easy and fun giving Alice a hard time, because she does give us a lot of material to work with, but this issue is just lame.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Manis Tricuspis

Well, obviously everyone would draw the line somewhere, that's the whole point of the thread. Alice is getting the abuse she's getting not because she's drawn a line, but because the line basically only extends as far as she can reach without having to get up. Saying "Oh, you guys wouldn't date transsexual Branch Davidian trapeze artists, so you're all hypocrites!" kind of misses the point. Our "exclude" lists are collectively about as small as Alice's "include" list, which is why it's all so alarming to us.

She limited herself to White Christians.

She lives in the South. That's likely the majority demographic there, so it isn't quite as tight a limit as you claim.

[ My example was a much broader group than "transexual Branch Davidian Trapeze artists". Maybe as much as 25% of the country. ]

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.