RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 23, 2018 at 8:49 am
(July 23, 2018 at 8:33 am)SteveII Wrote:(July 21, 2018 at 12:30 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Let me put it this way.
Suppose someone claimed that inter-racial marriage isn't a real marriage and that real marriage is limited to those of the same race. Suppose that they point to the historical separation of the races as justified both societally and by religion.
Would you not say this person is a bigot?
The situation with gay marriage is *exactly* the same.
It is not even *remotely* the same.
The main point of contention is the definition of marriage. In your attempt at a parallel, you didn't change any definitions. No one would ever say that two people of different races can't logically get married. If you have a problem with the concept of an interracial marriage, you would be bigoted because the objection is based on race not on the definition of marriage.
Using the ten millennium old definition of marriage, it is illogical for same sex to get married.
I don't care [at all] if you think the definition should be changed. That is your opinion. What does NOT FOLLOW is that wishing to preserve the definition makes you a bigot.
On the contrary, people *did* argue that it was *logically* impossible for two races to marry, just as it would be *logically* impossible for humans to marry chimps (that was the argument).
The *definition* of marriage is 'a societally recognized bond used to form a family unit'. There is *no* reason that can't be applied to gay marriage. And, to deny it, is a form of bigotry.
