RE: Same sex marriage
May 13, 2012 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2012 at 1:50 pm by genkaus.)
(May 13, 2012 at 12:35 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Well I totally disagree, Gods existence is axiomatic, we can refuse to acknowledge it, but it still remains a truth, you are simply denying the very thing that gives you being and capability to deny it.
Your disagreement is irrelevant. As is your incapacity to comprehend what constitutes an axiom or truth or how you judge them. Your failure to understand the criteria for axiomicity does not make your fraudulent concept of god into one.
(May 13, 2012 at 12:35 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Quite simple to answer really, if something requires a set of criteria, if you need to remove some of the criteria in order to redefine it, by definition it is devalued. At present marriage is open to procreation in principle (couples who cannot have children doesn't alter the principle, therefore not relevant) If we now say that marriage is simply a union of two persons it is devalued and we lose the special procreative union as defined at present. (UK Law)
Actually, if procreative union is the principle in play, couples unable to procreate (not just barren people, but elderly women as well) would not be eligible for the union without devaluing the definition. That you are using special pleading to excuse their inclusion does not change the fact.
