(November 13, 2013 at 12:33 am)Lion IRC Wrote: I can make a purely secular argument against SSM based on the benefits of defending the nuclear family ie. Heterosexual, monogamous, committed parents and their biologically-related children.
...and I can additionally make an argument from the religious culture which people are democratically entitled to pursue and embrace even at the expense of certain minorities.
And I can make a biblical, theological argument.
And I can use an argumentum ad baculum based on fear of Gods punishment!
And none of it will matter the least tiniest bit.
You can keep railing against gay marriage, hell you can even go out and campaign to make all gay marriage illegal again, and even if you and your fellow bigots succeed, (this is the clincher) you're never, ever going to keep gay people from being gay and living together. I don't care how much you want to defend the "nuclear family" (whatever that means these days), but whether or not gay marriage is legal or not, gay people will still be gay and will still want to live together as domestic partners.
So, since that is the case, give me one good reason we shouldn't allow them to have all the benefits of legal marriage.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
