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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Yeah, I got that. And unless you're intently watering down the word, you're wrong.
You could rephrase your absolute to 'most of these people', but I don't see how you'd manage to support that, either. Opposition to gay marriage just doesn't require intolerance toward other groups or opinions. It just doesn't.
They surely go hand-in-hand for some significant portion of the opposition, but that's about as much as one can say without guessing.
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If there is a way of making a non-bigoted argument against gay marriage, why not make that? THAT is the point of pointing out the ridiculousness of the slippery slope fallacy often used.
Because this whole slippery slope fallacy is nothing more than a way of hiding one's bigotry. It is a way of avoiding having to make a case against gay marriage itself, which either means that the person has no problem with gay marriage, just a problem with basic logic, or that the person has an argument against gay marriage, but refuses to make it in public.
Because all states already have laws against incest and polygamy, so adding amendments against gay marriage to ban those things is redundant and irrelevant as far as the slippery slope goes.