Thanks.
As far as the gay marriage debate, if you know all the talking points it's easy to show how fallacious they are. Such as keeping the "tradition" of marriage and not "redefining". Marriage used to be a business deal between the husband and the girl's father. Polygamy used to be okay. Interracial marriage was illegal in this past century. It's been redefined many times.
There's also the argument that it's a religious institution. Well great, no one is saying churches have to perform marriages, we're talking about civil marriage. So either let gay's marry or get rid of civil marriage and only have civil unions.
Then there's the "protect the children" argument, that has been thoroughly demolished. Gay parents have been shown to be just as good as heterosexual parents, and in some cases even better. (Consider the fact that homosexual parents always have to plan for their child whether through artificial insemination or adoption, heterosexuals don't) It was also addressed in the Iowa court decision. In fact I highly recommend reading the Iowa court document on gay marriage, it demolishes all of the points against gay marriage beautifully. It comes down to that people are against gay marriage for religious, and especially bigoted reasons. None that are based on fact or what is fundamentally correct for every human's civil rights.
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/1022...ing-points
There's also this amusing top ten list: http://www.stopgeek.com/top-10-reasons-g...legal.html
As far as the gay marriage debate, if you know all the talking points it's easy to show how fallacious they are. Such as keeping the "tradition" of marriage and not "redefining". Marriage used to be a business deal between the husband and the girl's father. Polygamy used to be okay. Interracial marriage was illegal in this past century. It's been redefined many times.
There's also the argument that it's a religious institution. Well great, no one is saying churches have to perform marriages, we're talking about civil marriage. So either let gay's marry or get rid of civil marriage and only have civil unions.
Then there's the "protect the children" argument, that has been thoroughly demolished. Gay parents have been shown to be just as good as heterosexual parents, and in some cases even better. (Consider the fact that homosexual parents always have to plan for their child whether through artificial insemination or adoption, heterosexuals don't) It was also addressed in the Iowa court decision. In fact I highly recommend reading the Iowa court document on gay marriage, it demolishes all of the points against gay marriage beautifully. It comes down to that people are against gay marriage for religious, and especially bigoted reasons. None that are based on fact or what is fundamentally correct for every human's civil rights.
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/1022...ing-points
There's also this amusing top ten list: http://www.stopgeek.com/top-10-reasons-g...legal.html
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