| akuma587 said: No one is forcing anything on you if we allow gay people to get married. We aren't trying to make you marry a gay person. We aren't forcing your church to marry gay people, we aren't forcing you to invite gay couples to your house. What are we forcing you to do? Sacrifice your religious beliefs? That's absurd, you are still entitled to not allow gay people to get married in your church and to believe that it is morally wrong for gay people to marry. Allowing someone else to do something that has no tangible impact on your life is not depriving you of a right. And even if that is a right, its not a right society has an interest in protecting. By your same logic, we are infringing on people's rights who are offended by interracial marriages and who are racists when we make them eat in the same restaurant as those people. What you are talking about is a right to determine how other people run their lives even though their choice has no tangible impact on your life other than a perceived impact. Its different than us allowing people to murder others in society. That can tangibly impact your life. Gay marriage will only impact your life if you allow it to. Its like a person being offended by interracial couples eating in a restaurant. The right you are discussing is a right that society has no interest in protecting, since it conflicts with another person's right to live life in a way they choose when that choice does not impact society in a negative way. You can argue that allowing gay people to marry would impact people in a negative way, but that argument has about as much support for it as saying that allowing interracial marriage will have a negative impact on society. Show me scientific studies or documented evidence that gay marriage has a negative impact on society, and then we can talk. You aren't basing your reasons for being against gay marriage on anything tangible or anything empirical. Without hard evidence that it will impact society in a negative way (pretty easy to do with something like allowing murder), then your argument is weak at best. |
But this is all based on the fact you think certain impacts resultant of actions are inherently wrong; forcing someone not to murder is the same as forcing no gay marriage; you don't like it, therefore you stop it. Can you tell me why you think that murdering another human being has consequences that are inherently wrong? If not, then you've become what you've accused.
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