(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!
You can not make an argument that stands up to reason, however.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.