Speakeasy forum: Same sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland

just because the same word signifies disgust and reason for forbiddance, doesn't signify the actions are necessarily the same, any more than saying murder, burglary, and rape are all crimes makes them all the same. Even though each one may be a crime, they are each a crime unto itself. Put a nice warm cap on your head this winter, I think the cold is affecting you too much this year.

for the wrong reason.

People marry more within their own race, I don't think anyone will deny that. Of course, there have been really very few outside of first and second generation immigrants that are of any "pure" race in the US for decades.

My wife had two great grandmothers that were mostly if not all American Indian, but her family, her generation and the previous one didn't list that as race on forms, they just listed white/caucasion. And depending on how you narrowly you define race how many different "races" any individual is likely to have as ancestors.

People of the same race probably do often fill more comfortable with each other. That would be even more true of two races that had any history of conflict in a region. Maybe most move too much now for it to be as much of a factor, but often family history, religion, community habits, a lot of social conditioning growing up led to people naturally more comfortable with people that grew up under similar conditions.

I see nothing wrong with that. That doesn't mean that I think it's better either, it just is.

People probably marry more within the same general religious beliefs too. No difference.

Acutally the more someone's backgroud is different, by anything, the more difficult making a marriage a good and last one is likely to be in my opinion. Not because it's wrong, but because there will be times that the expectations will be in opposition because of habits and beliefs learned growing up where and when you did.

Too many people don't stop and consider why they react the way they do to something, they just react, abandoning reason in favor of "trust your gut".

So the question becomes while such problems exist with more diverse populations, does that means a homogeneous population is better over all?

As long as the population is large enough, probably so, and diagnosis as well as treatment may be easier.

But doesn't normally introducing outside genes into a gene pool normally have and overall benefit?

if the treatement worked better for the same reason the problem occurred more.