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Originally Posted by timalkin
Do you know who determines at what age a minor can enter a legal contract? That's right, the state legislature does. If the legislature says that a 10 year old can enter a contract, then a 10 year old can enter a contract.
Can you give any reasons why the line will never move to incest? I don't see any reason, personally.
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So why allow marriage at all? After all, following this slippery slope fallacy, regular marriage will lead to gay marriage which will lead to incest and all sorts of things.
At the end of the day, you have to use that because you really can't say what you really think, so you have to come up with these sorts of arguments. Still, you have not explained why gay marriage will lead to any of these things, and why fighting to stop gay marriage is the battle to fight.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Gays aren't denied the right to marry because they're gay. If they were, that law would be struck down faster than it could reach a court, as it would signal out a specific group of people (Gays). Bans on marriages which don't adhere to the whole, "One man, one woman" mantra, while "discriminating" against gays, also equally "discriminates" against groups who do not fall into the "one man, one woman" category.
No, they can't be married because of who they're trying to marry, not because they're gay.
Correct. The issue is who they're marrying, not the fact that they're gay.
But why? Granted, I'm not saying that SSM is equivalent those other things, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that bans on SSM are equally "discriminatory" to gays as they are to, say, polygamists.
Because marriage is a social construct regulated by the state, not the church.
We've been over this before. If someone's relationship is only "legitimized" by marriage, then I'm not so sure they're relationship is real, anyway.
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I am sorry, but this is just nonsense.
So banning gay marriage is not discriminatory because they still have the right to marry people of the opposite sex? Are you seriously trying to make this argument?
Following your line of thinking, banning inter racial marriage is not discriminatory either, since everyone can still get married...
And I've yet to understand how same sex marriage leads to polygamy. Especially considering that most polygamous relationships are heterosexual in nature. Maybe we should outlaw straight marriage.