(September 11, 2014 at 10:55 am)Dolorian Wrote: A Cahtolic would probably say that the legal rights which are exclusive to heterosexual marriage are rooted in it's ability to generate children and raise them up. That marriage was established as a norm in order to encourage it as an special arrangement upon which society depends for survival. Homosexual marriage on the other hand is a dead end, even when looked at from an evolutionary point of view, thus there is no reason to grant it the same status and rights as heterosexual marriage.
To a catholic I would argue two points:
There is also no reason NOT to grant the same status and rights, as it is a "dead end" of personal choice. Two people's marriage is nobody else's business!
Also, lots of heterosexual marriage also produce no children, sometimes with the participants knowing from the outset that they cannot have them through medical conditions, etc; Are these also not "true" marriages and therefore sinful?
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
