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Originally Posted by Willravel
FoolThemAll, it's a demand, not a request. They aren't requesting that gay people don't get married, they're outlawing it. How can you possibly translate that to "you shouldn't do that"? It's "you can't do that", and therein lies the bigotry. Therein lies the intolerance.
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That was just one part of my point, though, that a simple prohibition in the Bible != bigotry.
Another part of that post, reiterated: then who in politics ISN'T a bigot? Who HASN'T said "you can't do that" to a group of people? Could you refine your concept a little more?
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Originally Posted by dippin
If there is a way of making a non-bigoted argument against gay marriage, why not make that?
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Slippery slope arguments certainly are poor arguments, but they're not uniformly bigoted. It's usually said that gay marriage will lead to worse things, not
equally worse things. While these arguments often mention pedophilia or bestiality, they seldom put them on the same moral level.
What exactly do you mean when you call those arguments bigoted? How do they show bigotry?
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Because this whole slippery slope fallacy is nothing more than a way of hiding one's bigotry.
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You're guessing.
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It is a way of avoiding having to make a case against gay marriage itself
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While I'll by no means claim that there's any
good argument against gay marriage, a reminder seems warranted that slippery slope isn't the only argument out there.
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which either means that the person has no problem with gay marriage, just a problem with basic logic
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Which wouldn't necessarily involve bigotry, no?