excellent point.
hey, there are some people that choose not to have kids instead of pumping out a biscuit every 10 months.
are they going to hell?
here's another question about those that consider themselves able to judge:
Christians are against abortions, and they're against Homosexuals!!
Well who has less abortions than homosexuals??? Here's a whole demographic of people GUARENTEED never to have an abortion, and the right wingers are just throwing them aside! You'd think they'd make natural allies...
I can't take credit for that.. I bow to Carlinian wit.
Okay now on with the rest of this @!#$.
The problem with the anti-homosexual marriage argument is that its based entirely upon assumptions, which have little or no merit after looking past their warm and fuzzy "moral majority" Bull@!#$ exterior.
Fallacy: Gay marriage is not sanctified by God.
Fact: Actually, there are several churches that do, in fact, perform marriage rites to couples that are the same sex.
Spin: Think of how sanctified Marriage is when Brittany Spears and some dick can go get married for 56 hours... JUST FOR A GOOF!
Fallcy: Gay Marriage is wrong because there will never be a child produced from the union.
Fact: There are hundreds of thousands of couples that don't have children, yet they are in a loving and committed relationship. There are further Millions of people that adopt children because they can't have kids or would rather care for a child that is in need first.
Spin: Tell a veteran that got caught in the blast of an IED in Iraq that because he had his testicles shredded off because he didn't get crotch armour, that he further cannot get married because he can't have kids. Do this while trying desperately to not look like a total @!#$ in the process.
Fallacy: Gay marriage will rob "normal marriages" of their dignity
Fact: Same sex unions will NOT rob traditional marriages of bloody anything. It's not about taking away from other people, it's about making the government protect the bonds that people make.
Spin: The dignity of marriage was effectively erased when the first Divorce happened. It became a joke when the first Drive-thru wedding chapple appeared.
Fallacy: Gay Marriage is not normal
Spin: Like a 53% divorce rate is?
Fact: No, it's not a nuclear family of 40 years ago. That is on the wane for whatever reason. Cheating is happening more and more often, and there are a lot of reasons behind that, and sadly, the people that are getting divorced for reasons of adultery are PRIMARILY heterosexual. If gay couples start in on it, you might gain 25% in the divorce rate, and even then, hetero's are about there to begin with.
Fallacy: Gays are not normal, therefore they should not be married.
Fact: Maybe people that think like you need to have your thought processes adjusted. Here's a little excercise: Substitute "Gays" in the first sentence with Blacks, Middle Easterners, Asians, Jews, Muslims, or Martians. Argument doesn't sound so reasonable does it?
Sounds pretty prejudiced and hateful right?
Maybe because if you can say that first sentence without thinking at all about it, you're too stupid to know that you're a bigot. You can't just hate on another person for no reason other than they are who they are... because it invites hatred upon you. Maybe I'm a little rusty on biblical sayings, but I distincly remember: "Love thy Neighbour, Love thyself." Note how that was phrased.
Please, present your arguments, I'll happily turn them away.
Transeat In Exemplum: Let this stand as the example.