BrockthePaine wrote:There are a few religions which would allow me to murder anybody I disliked, too. Why don't we religiously tolerate them as well? Why don't we let a Papuan slash open your chest and rip out your brain to eat it and gain power from your spirit aura? Simple: You do not have the freedom to do something that is morally reprehensible. When we believe something is wrong, we oppose it. You have the right to disagree with us. That's why we have a marketplace of ideas.
Perhaps because science has "proven" nothing. Homosexuals are defined by an act they do; it is a behavior, not some magical "they're persecuting me because of my gay gene!" rubbish. You might as well adapt that argument to smokers and folks who eat pancakes for dinner.
An interesting phenomenom in American culture is that something need only meet the requirement that something is not damaging to society or, as has been discussed elsewhere in this forum, must have benefits that objectively outweigh the harm. A net value greater than or equal to zero, if you will.
Thus, if you believe that there's a a net loss to society, it is up to you to prove it. Due to the nature of freedom, similair to 'innocent until proven guilty,' we work on a system of 'free to do so until proven harmful to society.' In turn, the burden of proof is on the negation; You, sir, have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that same-sex marriage is harmful to society.
I have seen no such arguments that have not had complete and adequate refutations. The evidence seemse to point towards the affirmative rather than the negative.
I would have hoped to say something meaninful, or possible inciteful. But, alas.
How goes the world today? From right to left or left to right? Perhaps it runs round mad reels, turning in on itself only at long last to blow away with the leaves and gutter-trash.
How goes the world today? Top to Bottom or Bottom to Top? Perhaps it will rise high enough so that it may see the back of its own head, in a maddening tunnel of infinity.
How goes the world today? Clockwise or Counter? Perhaps it will spin itself mad, curling a spring-from into endlessness.
Or maybe, today, it will just stop.