Subway Sandwich.

I went to Subway today to get my favorite sandwich. The guy in front of me ordered a different sandwich. I was angry because he didn't get the same sandwich as me, even though it didn't affect me in any way.

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE SOUND LIKE WHEN THEY SAY GAY MARRIAGE AFFECTS THEM.

Please discuss.

 

Hey!...

... how `bout dat!...

... I went to Subway today too...

... an' got a sammich...

... an' broke lil' pieces off it...

... so's possum could eat `em off the table.

 

If the sandwich tech handed you a pizza and demanded that you call it a Tuna Melt, he would sound like a Leftist telling America that two gay men are married.

 

I doubt they will understand your reasoning.

However, I think I do.

Few people I know of on the Right oppose Gays having legally sanctioned committed relationships with the rights that go along with the deal.

But, when someone calls it, "Marriage" they are using a misnomer.

Why?

Because marriage requires two people of the opposite sex.

Period.

No offense meant toward anyone, it's just a difference between apples and oranges.

Or, pizza and tuna melt.

 

Dude, your order would still be what you ordered, who cares what the other guy gets or what he calls it?

 

The problem is not that the guy got a different sandwich than I did. The problem is that he insists that I approve of his sandwich. He demands recognition for his sandwich when all I have to offer is tolerance or indifference.

 

Exactly, so gays should go be gay with the progressives of their choice and stop trying to pass laws to rename pizza.

 

Actually, you should sit down and eat your pizza and not care that the other guy's order is also called a pizza despite not having the same toppings as yours.

This is kinda fun.

 

I don't care that the nut wants to call a pizza a tuna melt. I just don't want the law changed to support his insane view.

 

Your premise is that "traditional marriage" and "gay marriage" are as different as a pizza and a tuna melt...
In both instances, two consenting adults declare their love and form a lasting partnership that is legally recognized. They gain certain rights in relation to representing one another, and acting as 'next of kin' for each other.
In one instance, both individuals are of the same sex.

Without thumping a Bible, please explain how is that a dramatic difference. Bonus points for additional food analogies.

 

So by that rational I should be offended by a breed of dog, the Australian Sheep dog, that is not Australian?

 

I was angry that you DEMANDED a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MENU than everybody else had to follow, for NO GOOD REASON.

 

Whether someone else refers to tuna as pizza or not has exactly zero affect on you and oh by the way once we start letting people pass laws which define such things we open the door to one day being told our own defi ition is no longer valid.

Government out of marriage.

 

Why would gays want the government to know who they are banging in the bedroom?

I thought liberals wanted government OUT OF THE BEDROOM?

 

What if that different sandwich had poison in it and some child saw them order it? What if that child finds ordering that sandwich now acceptable and orders the poisonous sandwich?

 

But Don, as the OP correctly illustrated, IT DOESN'T EFFECT YOU!

 

That some people are emotionally torqued by legal parity is no justification to deny same. Not in a nation of free men, anyway. If you want the government to protect from from emotional discomfort, then I'm afraid you can not live in a nation of free men.

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I'm sorry I have to disagree. Now if the guy demanded you eat his sandwich? Huh, well that could actually be a pickup line. Oh, I kill myself sometimes, I really do.

 

Maybe the government shouldn't be the party defining pizza in the first place? But if it is going to, then it must insure equal pizza for all consenting adults

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Other than your emotional discomfort, how does it effect you?

 

Actually, it's the same sandwich (same bread, same cheese, same veggies) just with different meat.
Doesn't have any affect on your sandwich, so why do you care?

In short, gays are asking for the same rights and treatment from the government that straight people have. Can anyone make a rationalisation for why this is an issue that isn't reliant on religious belief?

 

Fax me when Subway has a gluten free sandwich, assuming it doesn't taste like pressed wood chips.

 

NB: A "declaration of love" is not required to enter the legal contract of civil matrimony: All that is required is capacity, intent, and consent.

 

In what way could the sandwich (marriage) be poisonous?

 

You are in no way prevented from ordering the sandwich of your choice.

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I believe the goal is simply legal parity.

 

That's the parents' responsibility... unless you want the government nanny raising our children. I mean It takes a village, right?

 

You are implying that the purpose of marriage is to inform the government of who you are "banging".
Given that perspective, I'll assume you're surprisingly single...