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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (94644)11/7/2008 9:38:51 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 541384
 
>>All it means is that I prefer the traditional legal definition of marriage be upheld and not overturned. It seems to me that it's the side you represent that's the aggressor and trying to force an issue. Yet it's my side that's always accused of trying to force a belief system on other people. We're trying to preserve a belief system, not neccessarily expand it. It's your side that's always pushing to turn things over, don't you think? At any rate, this is the way I see it and it can be mildly irritating at times.<<

Kate -

It's been brought up before, but it wasn't that long ago that it was illegal for people of different races to marry. Arguing that it was traditional for them not to marry didn't hold water, since it was clear that this was a matter of some people wanting to continue to impose their belief system on others, and to deny them basic equality under the law.

The present situation is precisely analogous. The imposition of your view on others, in denying them the right to marry, has been ongoing. You accept that as "the norm." So you see efforts to change this as the imposition of somebody else's belief system on you.

But you are not the one who is being denied equality under the law. You have the legal right to marry, which you have exercised. Nobody is going to take that right away from you. The idea is simply to stop taking it away from homosexuals, as the law currently does in most states.

I notice that in places where homosexual marriage is permitted legally, there is no evidence of harm to the marriages of heterosexuals.

- Allen
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