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I'm not telling anyone what to do. I just said telling other people to stfu isn't going to solve anything. I didn't tell him to stop, I'm just saying yelling isn't going to help anyone.
I'm not saying I'm against gay marriage, I want gay people to be just as happy as anyone else. Sorry if it sounded like i was bitching.
It amazes me that this has been and continues to be a wedge issue. What happened to seperation between church and state? I thought the government is established to protect people, people give some of there freedom to the government in exchange for protection and order, at its most simple form. By preventing gays from marrying, who are they protecting and how does it benefit anyone? I really don't see why people are so passionatley against the concept of gay getting married. So what they can't reproduce? Does that mean that any hetero couple that doesn't plan on having children chould not get married? Should their be a contract to produce x amount of babies for newlywed couples? The argument that because they can't reproduce is totally flawed and it doesn't prevent them from raising an adopted child. And by no means are all gay people these prancing faries everyone makes them out to be, one of the guys I know who is gay packs a Kimber 1911 .45 with him everyday, listens to country and is basically I guy who could probably whoop the shit out of most people I know. I don't know if that last part was really relevant, but my question is, if there is supposed to be a seperation between church and state, so the Bible should have no say in this, and the goal of the government is to protect it's citizens and gays getting married hurts no individual, then what is the problem?
/rant
I think the point is that in the case of marriage, the TYPE of human you are (male, female, black, white etc...) should not effect the TYPE of human you choose to marry.
same-sex marriage is different than polygamy because:
it involves ONE person marrying ONE other person, whereas polygamy does not.
and, same-sexmarriage is different than beastialiy because:
it involves a HUMAN marrying another HUMAN.
In inter-racial marriage, you have TWO HUMANS, of different TYPES. Not MORE THAN ONE and NOT AN ANIMAL. Wierd, that's the same as gay-marriage. I think it's pretty obvious.
I can't understand the"slippery slope" argument (let gay marriage pass and people will start marrying pigs).
I mean, it's just not the same thing.