Mr Puggsly said:
HappySqurriel said:
Homosexuality is not a race ... There are significant differences between sexuality and race, and trying to make them equivalent is not reasonable.
Beyond that, while I'm fully willing to admit that people are attracted to what they're attracted to with almost no control over it, homosexuality is a lifestlye choice; much like heterosexuality, swinging, bondage, being a playboy, and countless other pursuits. A heterosexual marriage is a very particular kind of lifestyle choice which (for a long time) has received substantial benefits from the government, and the argument is that this is discriminatory against other lifestyle choices. The solution to this problem is not to open up the same benefits to a handful of significantly different lifestyle choices while still discriminating against everyone else.
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Comparing homosexuality and heterosexuality to swinging and bondage is ridiculous. You're comparing simple attraction to fucked up fetishes.
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In what way is it ridiculous?
Most people feel that they have little control over what they want sexually regardless of whether they're very conventional or if they're into "fucked up fetishes" as you call them. Many of the sexual acts and lifestyle choices we completely accept today (in both heterosexual and homosexual couples) were considered "fucked up fetishes" a couple of generations ago. We accept the notion that people should not be discriminated against regardless of what they do in a private environment between consenting adults, it doesn't matter if you think it is fucked up or not.
