There were probably a huge number of people who didn’t see a problem with widespread contraceptive and abortion use. Now, a good 50 years later, the so called “sexual revolution”, we have insane numbers of abortion, contraceptive use is widespread, their failure rates kinda high, as evidenced by the 54% of women seeking abortions were using contraception in the month they fell pregnant [PP’s stats]. Divorce, co-habitation, fornication, young men addicted to porn, more and mroe relationships failing, people heart broken and looking for love in all the wrong places. More families being “single parent” homes, kids growing up without fathers.
Tell me again about how the “slippery slope” argument is not really logical?
We are talking about something that is taking aim at the foundation of human society. All our civilizations have acknowledge the special relationship dynamic between one man and one woman getting together, committing to each other, and hopefully bearing and raising kids.
That is the ideal. To say that Bob and Barry’s union is on par with Jane’s and Steves if offensive and ignores the obvious that marriage is the foundation stone on which society is built. Chip away at that… well, the building will likely come falling down. Now, some make the argument that its no one’s business, that Bob and Barry’s union doesn’t affect them, and maybe it doesn’t. But it affects Bob and Barry’s families, their circles of friends, which will include children, who are going to want to know, who are going to ask questions, who are going to scandalised by this relationship. It will affect you if your govt. gives tax breaks to “families” and Bob and Barry with their nice gay disposable income and no children class as a “family”.
I’ll agree that what happens in some consenting adults’ bedroom I don’t care about and is really none of my buisness, so why then are those people demanding that it becomes my business when they are forcing society to change the formulae of marriage and claim all benefits, including some funded with my taxes. None of my business? Really?
And while as an adult, I can put on my big girl pants and suck it up and mind my own business, what about the children? I honestly don’t give a rat’s pink and wrinkly if Bob wants to get intimate with Barry, but don’t try and act as if its normal, and don’t demand marriage as your relationship title and don’t you dare force that filth on children! Giving them marriage rights will give them the right to adopt, to IVF funding and various child creation technologies. Children have the right to a mum and a dad, it is sad and unfortunate when children find a parent lost to divorce or death or because dad is a deadbeat and mum is pro-life, but creating a structure intentionally where a child is denied one gendered parent? That’s repugnant.
IT might not affect us grown ups too much, but it will affect children, and to say otherwise is just assinine and naive.
Give it 30 years post legalisation of gay “marriage” and then lets see the results, and who then will think it was such a great right?
As for the claim that same sex attracted people are somehow “second class citizens”, that’s thoroughly offensive to people around the world who realy are second class citizens, women in some Muslim countries, unable to drive, to leave the house without a male relative, to get an education.
SSA’d people can vote, go where they want, when they want [within all legal reason], they can get an education, they have the right to freedom of speech and assembly, they can own business and inherit property. To say they are second class citizens because they can’t “marry”, really is just a giant slap in the face of women who are stoned in Afganistan, the politican prisoners in China, the Jews who were gassed by the Nazis. Its nothing more than emotional grandstanding. Shame on whatever homosexual idiot coined that phrase in reference to their “plight”.
Marriage isn’t a right. It is a set formulae that if a person doesn’t meet the criteria too they can’t marry. Simple as that. Theyr’e still human beings. They are still able to exercise all other rights available.
The pro-“traditional”-marriage crowd have done a cruddy job at educating the public as to what marriage really is.
