Quote:
|
Originally Posted by NCB
Oh, you're talking about same sex people getting "married". That's a different story then. Perhaps then this debate should really focus on changing the definition of marriage, because as it stands now (and has stood for thousands of years), the thought of two men or two women getting "married" is completely illogical and doesn't make sense.
That said, let's shift the focus on the merits of changing the definition of marriage. And why should we stop at only two homosexuals getting hitched? Why not a threesome or moresome? Why only change the definition to include only two people. Also, should we allow close relatives to get hitched as well? It's not really fair for them not to. After all, if it's between "consenting adults", why should the govt stop them?
|
You cannot seem to comprehend that there are people who experience an
attraction to others not unlike the way that you have, the difference being
one that you have no empathy for; they find themselves attracted to
people of their own gender.
Through a combination of environment and of upbringing, you have been
encouraged to openly display display your contempt for people who feel
and express love for each other, but who do so in a way that you find
threatening to your own belief system. People who are oriented to a
same gender sexual attraction, have no more choice in finding themselves so oriented, than you did back in grade school. Your lack of empathy helps
you to avoid accepting that.
I have a friend who has lived in a loving monogamous relationship with a
member of his own gender for 25 years. If not for the lack of empathy in
his own community, a civil union between this couple would long ago have
been a certainty.
You wear your dysfunctional, intolerant view on your sleeve, apparently with the encouragement of your own equally, in their way of thinking about this issue anyway, own dysfunctional community.
You exhibit a need for the love my friend has shared for 25 years with his partner to be somehow different, and importantly, alien to the love that you and your community share with your own partners. Your dysfunction is exhibited not only in your need for this love to be different and alien, but
also in your need to make their love separate and negative somehow, since
it frightens the part of you that can recognize that their love for each other is so similar to your own expression. Your comfort in openly displaying and acting politically on your dysfunctional and intolerant thinking aggravates existing division and intolerance in society, and makes your personal dysfunction, society's problem. My friend's 25 year partner is a psychiatrist, who would probably agree that you should seek help in dealing with your issues, for the improvement of your mental health.