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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (76776)7/27/2008 4:09:20 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 543140
 
MM -

Yes, you did. And you did so using the same strawman arguments that other people have used in opposing gay marriage.

The right that heterosexuals have that gays don't is the right to marry one other consenting adult of their choice.

Giving them that right would not lead to people marrying 13 year-old girls or box turtles, which heterosexuals cannot do in our society, either. It would not lead to group marriages, which are likewise not sanctioned under law for heterosexuals.

To claim that because homosexuals may legally marry members of the opposite sex and thus have the same rights as heterosexuals is just silly.

Try flipping the situation. If you were legally allowed to marry only members of your own sex, I believe you'd feel that you were being denied a basic human right.

Your claim that gays and lesbians have all the rights heterosexuals do is simply incorrect, as is the claim that they want more comprehensive rights than heterosexuals have.

- Allen
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