(May 10, 2014 at 6:15 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The bottom line is, Heywood, in order for your argument to be valid, you have to show a reason why allowing homosexual marriages will decrease the value to society that heterosexual marriages offer, or at the very least how it will decrease the number of heterosexual marriages that occur. Because your 'value to society' argument sort of hinges on it.
Negative Steel,
The claim is homosexual marriages are equivalent to heterosexual marriages. There is no natural/intrinsic reason this needs to be the case so it likely isn't(unless there is a God who designed it so). The burden is upon you to come up with reasons why we should pretend it is equivalent.
Don't get me wrong, there are lots of good reasons to act as if the two kinds of union are equivalent. However the fact they are not equivalent is also reason enough not to give them the same status. Let the people decide what they want to do and not some judge who makes rulings based on flawed thinking.
