Gay marriage

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Well, in Australia medical staff who are ethically/morally opposed to abortions have to perform them - including 2nd/3rd trimester abortions. It is against the law for doctors/nurses to say they don't want to do it.

If a fireman is morally opposed to the extinguishing of fires, should he have a right to let your house burn, or should he realize that his job and his moral convictions are two separate things, and that his two choices are to either do his fucking job or get out of the way and let someone else do it, but the world doesn't have to make special exceptions every time he's offended?

On the issue of Marriage - if we allow same sex marriage then why not allow all forms of marriage we don't currently allow? Child-child, child-adult, incestuous couples? Now before you claim that my argument is rubbish - I believe every relationship I've mentioned should be legally recognized under civil union legislation, along with same-sex/heterosexual/polygamy, and every one else. Even if you redefine marriage to allow same-sex couples, you're still discriminating against other groups of people, just not same-sex couples anymore.

There's a thing called "analysis," that people can do to determine whether something is harmful or not, and since I'm sure you don't think murder laws discriminate against killers, I'd say you agree with me that harmful things should be restricted to within certain parameters, yes?

In terms of children, yes, we restrict what they can do. Why? Because they aren't fully equipped to make their own decisions yet, as anyone who has ever watched a kid eating paste could tell you. Hence, that's the only type of marriage you listed that I would be specifically against.

So you say that same-sex marriage ends discrimination, but it doesn't. Discrimination isn't always a bad thing, and the ideology behind same-sex marriage is no different.

I always find it interesting, the levels of dishonesty the religious will sink to at any given convenience, like pretending they can't see the difference between a justified restriction on an action in service to the public good, and restricting a class of people from an action based upon nothing more than "god durn't like it." It just goes to show how seriously they actually take their holy books.