RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
July 2, 2015 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2015 at 10:47 am by Justtristo.)
My $0.02 on marriage equality and especially the recent supreme court decision in the United States.
The legal recognition of same sex marriages is in my opinion no "purely symbolic" issue. Because it goes a long way to convince the “rubes” (the religious fundamentalists are another matter) that homophobia is not acceptable. Reverend Lovejoy said something about the mindset of these people in the Simpsons “Once something has been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral”.
Given the fact that many young people commit suicide or are killed because of their sexual orientation. I see marriage equality as a moral imperative, because this will help to prevent countless people from either killing themselves or being killed by others.
Although if I were a Christian Fundamentalist I would be preaching that we should be bringing back laws to re-criminalize homosexual sex, premarital sex, along with taking away government benefits from same sex couples, taking babies away from unmarried mothers, severely restricting divorce laws, etc. By pretty much stating the same argument above which I advocated marriage equality that the rubes need to convinced this behavior is not morally acceptable.
The legal recognition of same sex marriages is in my opinion no "purely symbolic" issue. Because it goes a long way to convince the “rubes” (the religious fundamentalists are another matter) that homophobia is not acceptable. Reverend Lovejoy said something about the mindset of these people in the Simpsons “Once something has been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral”.
Given the fact that many young people commit suicide or are killed because of their sexual orientation. I see marriage equality as a moral imperative, because this will help to prevent countless people from either killing themselves or being killed by others.
Although if I were a Christian Fundamentalist I would be preaching that we should be bringing back laws to re-criminalize homosexual sex, premarital sex, along with taking away government benefits from same sex couples, taking babies away from unmarried mothers, severely restricting divorce laws, etc. By pretty much stating the same argument above which I advocated marriage equality that the rubes need to convinced this behavior is not morally acceptable.
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