"Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham

[polymath257]

Seems like we should just call everyone married, and then no one is discriminated against.  I'll be a married bachelor, or someone can marry their toaster.   Whatever floats your boat I suppose.

The first is essentially the same as the government getting out of the marriage business.

So do we now get tax deductions?

The second is idiocy. Toasters, at least currently, cannot enter into legal contracts. If, in the future, they have enough self-awareness to do so and you wish to marry your toaster (and the toaster agrees), then go for it. But, as yet, toasters don't seem to be asking for marriage rights. And you don't get to marry without an agreement.

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You do not see the faulty logic in comparing a human-appliance relationship with a human-human relationship?

I could see where one might claim there is a category error there; if they are a knuckle dragging regressive.  For progressives however; we just re-define the term, in the name of equality.  If it's not equal, then you must be discriminating and therefore hateful.    Equal protection under the law apparently means this.  Also, we should probably talk about participation trophies for everyone who attends the ceremony.  

It is as absurd as thinking that legalizing human-human homosexual marriage will lead to the legalization of a human-goat marriage.

We probably haven't "progressed" to that point yet.  But perhaps one day they will be viewed as the same.  You probably just feel this way, because you find human-goat marriage icky!  Just because they are not the same, doesn't mean that they are not equal.

Thanks for comparing gays to toasters and goats. The continuing bigotry is noted.

Again, goats cannot enter into legal contracts.  They do not show the awareness and understanding to be able to agree to a  valid contract.

So, the fact that you see this as a slippery slope to such just shows how far away from being moral you really are.