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

[Mister Agenda]

Steve lives under the beliefs that if he repeats the same foolish lines over and over they somehow become less foolish

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There is no right in the constitution to redefine words/concepts/institutions.

Pure opinion

The constitution expressly indicates that it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all of our rights.

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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.

Anyone can already have any kind of marriage they want, the issue is over the legal rights of adult human beings to have their marriage acknowledged by the government, which has consequences regarding such matters as inheritance and visitation. If want to say you're married to your toaster, fine, no skin off anyone's nose. If you think you and your toaster spouse's rights are being violated because you can't get a marriage license, go ahead and sue for the right for your marriage to be recognized by the government. I'll bring popcorn.

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I don't believe that I have gotten to anything like that yet.  I've just been arguing for equal rights for single people.

What legal right do you lack as a single person that the government considering you married will add?

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Why can't we just re-define things to include the toaster (or not.... it's really based on preference)?

Definitions are based on common usage. That's because language is for communicating (and lying). No one's personal preferences define language, we're all stuck with common usage.

mar·riage

1. the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman).

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I explained to my wife what our resident Christians are trying to use as arguments here. She had trouble believing I was serious.

So she thinks it's silly when applied to single people or those who love toasters?     Is she toasterphobic?   If she says she doesn't hate toasters, don't believe her, and call her more nasty names.  Ask her if single people are second class citizens.

We're not saying you're stupid. We're saying that the things you say are stupid. But we only say that because it's true. We wish you'd stop embarrassing yourself like this, but you have a right to do it.

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I admit, I made up the thing about toasters....

No kidding.

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Do you find the arguments bad, or are you just a hateful bigot when it comes to toasty appliances. Doesn’t everyone deserve equal rights?

Get back to us when a toaster falls in love with you. Make sure it's over 18, or we'll get mired in other considerations.

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This isn't so much a slippery slope argument, but more of an argument to absurdity.  

For such an argument to succeed, you would need to present a persuasive case that a same sex couple marrying is absurd in the same sense that a union between a human and a toaster would be. However, all you've succeeded is demonstrating is the absurdity of comparing a marriage between humans to a marriage between humans and appliances.