Thread: If It's All The Same To You, Why Deny Others?

Originally Posted by icedog

I have seen people, some very intelligent and some well educated and some plain old average or below

Maybe you should avoid insults about people's intelligence, even if you think they are well hidden.

Originally Posted by icedog

An old man protesting violently against the legality of abortion. An abortion for any reason performed on a complete stranger does not affect this man. He simply wants all abortions stopped forever. It is something in his gut driving him. What? Why?

You can work that out. He thinks it is taking a life. If you believed the same you might be standing beside him joining in.

I don't share his belief or respect his way of airing his opinion, but I can at least understand his motive.

Originally Posted by icedog

Why do you care if it doesn't involve you?

Because it is a change being imposed on my culture. Why is it that I am expected to celebrate other cultures and embrace diversity, when MY culture is fair game for attack at every opportunity?

I am not against same-sex marriages because I want to deprive anyone of anything. I am against it because it is a contradiction in terms.

Marriage has been defined for centuries as a union between a man and a woman.

Clearly it is not possible for a same-sex couple to engage in a "union between a man and a woman." At least not with each other. The institution as it stands simply does not apply to them.

There is no need to redefine marriage, there are other, better ways to give same-sex couples all the rights they seek.

So let me turn your question round a bit:

Why do homosexuals care about marriage when it doesn't involve them?

Maybe an analogy might help. Homosexuals wanting marriage is like non-Jews wanting Bar Mitzvahs. Sure it does little harm to allow it, but what's the point?!