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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
You seem to assume that the gay community has an entirely different set of cultural norms compared to the straight community about what is and is not acceptable for kids to hear about. I don't know where you got that idea.
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To be fair to NCB, I do often get the impression that the 'gay community' -
in general (please note the emphasis) - has much more relaxed sexual mores. It's plausible to me that they might be proportionately more likely to favor pamphlets such as the one NCB displayed.
To be fair to Frosstbyte and every other dissenting voice, a single pamphlet incident doesn't even come close to making NCB's case.
And it still seems like a big leap to draw the conclusion that gay marriage will make these pamphlets acceptable to the status quo. Sounds like a slippery slope to me. And the thing about slippery slopes: if they really exist, then there's
NO safe place to rest. You might as well restrict marriage to Christians, for if marriage under the wrong or no God is acceptable, then why isn't polygamy? Neither "polygamy is different because x, y, and z" nor "polygamy is also okay" actually does anything for the anti-same sex marriage side.
Nevermind that we make and stick to arbitrary standards all the time.
"If we raise the drinking age to 21, what's stopping it from going to 22 or 25?"
"Um, people who don't want it that high, that's what."