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Originally Posted by brianna
i don't think i am. before the civil rights movement a large majority of americans were against interracial marriage, it was seen as immoral and dangerous and the bible was often used to justify this belief. i fail to see a difference between this and the current resistance to gay marriage. in both cases you have a bunch of people who are afraid of change (And i don't blame them, change is scary) and who are butting into other people's bedrooms in order to stop it. who someone else chooses to love or fuck is none of your business and it does not effect your life.
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this is interesting. i think you're on a slippery slope here. you seem to be saying that we know homosexual marriage to be a normal extension of marriage based on the fact that interracial marriage was once frowned upon and is now widely accepted, is that correct?
if so, then were do we stop? if we take a prior moral change in an institution and base our acceptance of subsequent moral issues on the grounds that the previous one worked... then all moral changes must be changes for the better. the logical conclusion of this reasoning is that all change must be good because a previous change was good. this leads us furthur down the road because it necessarily entails that the ideal is that all things must be acceptable at all times. i do not buy this and i'll wager that you do not either.
i think it's far more practical to take each moral question by itself. just because a previous moral issue was resolved doesn't follow that all subsequent ones are just an open mind away from being right.