lolita said:
starcraft said:
WessleWoggle said:
Confucius says "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
Do you want to impose on others the idea that they aren't worthy of getting married because marriage is some special magic tradition, not meant for them?
Hypothetically, how would you feel if you were attracted to black haired people and you were blonde and you wanted to get married, but societies cultural and religious majority viewpoint said that it was against the original tradition of marriage for people with different hair colors to get married?
You may argue hair color is genetic and homosexuality is not. But the truth is some gays do choose and some gays don't. Like hair color, homosexuality can be genetic, or can be a choice.
Would you really want people with different hair color to be denied marriage because it's against a silly tradition? |
You keep calling marriage a silly tradition. You cannot fathom how insulting that is too so many people around the world.
And you still havent answered my question. Why do you want to be part of a tradition you call silly so badly? You realise of course that marriage itself is so closely intertwined with the idea of male-female union that the two cannot possibly be labelled as two seperate traditions? Attack one and you attack the other.
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I don't think he's calling marriage a silly tradition, rather the thought, passed down to generations that marriage is only allowed to certain people in certain reasons. That anything else is blasphemy and can't be changed nor accepted. -_-'
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That's not what he has said at any point. What he has said is that he would be happy for everyone to have civil unions only, which reinforces just how obvious it is he cares about a political point being made, rather than ever being able to "marry."
Even if that wasnt his point, as I said, the notion of marriage being a male-female union IS the tradition. They are not two seperate traditions.
Fortunately if you look above, you'll find wessle and I have already agreed on a model. He wants marriage for straight people and "Ceremony's of Partnership" for gays. 
