Here is a clear indication that you misapprehend the argument.
It's arbitrary reasoning, I.E. a lack of any compelling reasoning (as proven by your inability to provide any) not to amend this institution to include gay relationships.
Hey dumb dumb: When you can't compel me or the courts with your reasons not to Amend Civil Marriage, that means they're deemed arbitrary by definition and we should go ahead and amend it on that basis.
Try again, kiddy corner:
P1. Gays have expressed the desire to re-visit the definition of Marriage, and amend it to include their relationships in the eyes of the State.
P2. Society is free to re-visit its institutions and amend them.
P3. There exists no compelling reason the State shouldn't grant their request.
C. Marriage has been changed to accommodate gay relationships.
They were deemed arbitrary. That does not mean that judgment was correct.
your inability to support that conclusion, without having your conclusion accepted as the premise, strongly implies that is was not correct.
Which premise are you having trouble with?
Put on your big boy pants, and tackle it head-on instead of continuing your obfuscations...
Try again, kiddy corner:
P1. Gays have expressed the desire to re-visit the definition of Marriage, and amend it to include their relationships in the eyes of the State.
P2. Society is free to re-visit its institutions and amend them.
P3. There exists no compelling reason the State shouldn't grant their request.
C. Marriage has been changed to accommodate gay relationships.
Better, you managed to not call me a bigot, FOR ONE WHOLE POST IN A ROW!!!
Good for you.
Now, the issue is, that your presentation of the debate is false, because such as debate would never have been taken to the courts, it would have taken place in the legislatures.
To take it to the courts, you have to assume as a premise, that the structure of Marriage is arbitrary, and thus discrimination.
The very venue your side choose, based the discussion on a false premise, ie your conclusion.
That's an assertion, not an argument. The lack of reasoning behind the continued exclusion when there's a represented segment of society presenting it - is a case......
1. NO, there is an argument there. It is one me and prog went over many, many times. Look closer.
2. ANd boom. You claim "exclusion", that assumes your conclusion as the premise.
hypothetical example. I show up at a football club, wearing my "football is stupid" t-shirt. They don't accept my membership, because it is club for football fans, and I am not a football fan.
I don't fit the purpose of the institution.
NOw, If I go and sue, and I win, it is no longer a club for Football fans. It is just a social club, that has been forced by the power of the state, to give up it's purpose.