Artevelde
Senior Member
Then maybe you can be the first to explain the reasonable opposition to marriage equality. Please provide the reasonable person standard you will use to oppose civil marriage equality. What is the societal harm in allowing non familial consenting adult couples the legal protections of civil marriage?
Go!
I've already posted it in several other threads started by the people obsessed with this craze: marriage, as a union between a man and a woman, is an essential foundation stone of human society (as can be observed throughout history and throughout the world). To turn this into something else because of a sudden politically correct fad is stupid, short-sighted and immoral.
And this is NOT about "marriage equality". The argument that this is somehow a "discrimination" has been rebutted several times in many threads.
Except it isn't. I have a license issued by the state of California that says I'm married. I've got friends that, while not legally married, got married in a church.
Legal civil marriage and religious marriage are two different entities. We already have equal access to religious marriage, but are fighting for legal, civil marriage. What reasonable person standard to you use to prohibit gays and lesbians from legal, civil marriage?
Your "tradition" line doesn't cut it and won't stand up in court. See, folks tried that when they passed laws preventing blacks from marrying whites. It failed then and will fail now.
It is completely about marriage equality and it most certainly IS discrimination. Those that claim it isn't have been shot down in their "arguments" repeatedly...and not just here, but in a court of law (where it matters).
Marriage equality will be a reality in the not too distant future. You can't stop it.
Maybe this will also fall victim to the blind desire to destroy society in the name of political correct fads. Not so sure how it will end.
But your arguments are false. And no real church will perform a gay marriage.