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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
i agree that separation between the various wrinkles in the issue is necessary, but i don't it has been given in an intellectually honest way.
nearly all of the defense of homosexual marriage arguments base homosexual marriage's legitimacy on the idea that it contains all necessary requirements for marriage (commitment, love, etc.)... but don't recognize that the exact same criteria they use for their argument has equal weight when used by someone who advocates incest or polygamy.
they do not accept incest and polygamy even though they ask others to accept homosexual marriage on the exact same principle. perhaps there are more compelling arguments for homosexual marriage, but i don't think the ones given hold water.
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Like i said above, it doesn't matter to me, and i have no clue as to why it matters to you.
I have the same problem as you, though, in that i haven't heard an argument against homosexual marriage that holds water. In fact, everytime i play the trump card, the "prohibiting gay marriage limits the religious freedom of those religions that allow gay marriage" it just gets ignored. I think i will start a thread devoted solely to this. Yeah, that' just what i am going to do.