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

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

The reasoning "it doesn't affect me now" is one that does not and never will work. Because eventually it might affect you.

Consider that the law would find it ok that people should be sacrificed for religion's sake. Human sacrifice.

At first you say, well, I don't mind that because I don't know anyone who'd want to do that.

And then your SON joins a cult that does, and he's selected to be sacrificed.

You USED to not have a problem with the fact that it was legal. But now you think it is.

Humans don't just judge something by how it affects them right NOW. But also by how it might affect them in the future.

For many people mariage is a very sensitive thing. It's considered sacred by many individuals. When you start changing the definition of it in some way they become affraid of it being changed in other ways in the future. The very thing that Jockeys gave as an illustration (what if in the future gay couples become majority and decide that straight mariages aren't lawfull) becomes their fear. So of mariage is left for what it is, a union between a man an a woman, that fear leaves.

Hell, create another word for it if you like, call is a ssunion, or a gayriage, or awhatever you like. But don't call it mariage, that's just asking for trouble.

I thought someone would blurt out how if same sex marriage was legal (as it is in many countries) next people would want to marry their dog. I really thought that was going to be the far edge of ridiculousness. But Alex, here you topped that by a long shot! You are comparing same sex marriage to human sacrifice! Awesome, just awesome. We are talking about the joining of two consenting adults. The word marriage means any close joining or relationship. The flavors in a pot of soup marry. The pieces of a lawnmower are married to each other.

The funniest thing about your opposition to same sex marriage in the USA is that you live in the first country to legally recognize same sex marriage.