An argument against gay marriage-double standards.

Interracial couples are still one man and one woman. You can't compare that with gay marriage or polygamy, which involve two men or two women, or one man and several women, or one woman and several men.

 

If you read my post carefully, you would have understood that, not withstanding my reservations about polygamy, I am not taking a stand on the issue of legality. My position, in case it was lost on you, and apparently was , is that it is IRRELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE.

 

It is very relevant. Most people would be against polygamy legalization, for moral reasons, but they don't think that gay marriage is immoral. Why is polygamy immoral, but gay marriage isnt? If gay marriage should be legal despite moral reasons (because they aren't infringing on anyone else's rights), then why shouldnt it be the same with polygamy?

I believe that both gay marriage and polygamy are immoral practices, which both weaken the definition of marriage, and that marriage should only be between one man and one woman.

 

Same-sex couples are still two people, just like heterosexual couples. You can't compare that with polygamy, which involves more than two persons.

By your own logic, polygamy is a totally separate issue from same-sex marriage, just like it is a totally separate issue from interracial marriage. You cannot consistently say that polygamy is incomparable to interracial marriage and at the same time hold it is comparable to same-sex marriage.

 

You are proving to be extremely dense. I just wrote a lengthy post explaining my position on polygamy and my reasons why it should not be part of a discussion on gay marriage, yet you keep coming back with the same talking points and questions over and over and over. You sound like a broken record. I completely destroyed your argument and yet you have not responded directly to a single point that I made. And, I have no idea what percentage of people would say that polygamy vs. gay marriage is immoral and I do not care. If you want to debate the merits of polygamy as a separate issues, by all means we can but I will not allow to poison the discussion of SSM

 

The states are dropping like dominos.....this one may well be the beginning of the end for the states with constitutional bans on same sex marriage http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/2...-equality-ban/

Same-sex marriage advocates never thought that they would get Utah in the next decade,” Yoshino told Maddow. “To have it happen today is extraordinary.”

Maddow intepreted the ruling to mean that the 30 states where marriage equality bans are amendments to the state’s constitution could face stiffer legal challenges following the Supreme Court ruling since those would be measured against the federal.....

 

One man and one woman = 2 people.

Two men or two women = 2 people.

Thus: Same-sex couples are still two people. You can't validly compare that with polygamy, which involves more than two people.

 

People keep putting out this bovine excrement about polygamy and incest as a valid comparison while ignoring the extensive arguments detailing why its nothing more than a logical fallacy and failing to advance any real argument of their own. I hear the sound of someone drowning in their own vomit

 

I would like to point out that the State of Virginia used similar arguments when trying to support its ban on inter-racial marriages- that they had the same right to ban those as they did incestious and polyamorous marriages.