Romney or Obama and why

[HappySqurriel]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

HappySqurriel said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

What is your point?

A black person is more likely to commit crimes during his entire lifetime, so should we not give them the same rights as white people because of that?

I define marriage as something that makes people happy to some extend, and you want to exclude a huge amount of people from that happiness.

So, tens of thousands of years of it being a formalized family unit for having and raising children should be abandoned because you feel that it has "something" to do with happiness ...

Personally, I believe it is fair to argue that the same laws and protections granted by the government should be granted to same sex couples by providing civil unions (or the government getting out of Marriage all together), it is another to say that cultural traditions that started at the beginning of human history should be abandoned because people feel left out.

What if those cultural traditions are discriminating? Should we still not abandon them just to show respect for the ignorant people who lived thousands of years ago?

Take a close look at number 5 and number 6 in my signature.

5 is completely unrelated to my argument and what I'm saying is unrelated to 6 ...

As an analogy, Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) have been designed to go off road for generations; regardless of whether someone takes them off road, or whether the vehicle has something wrong with it that prevents it from going off road, it doesn't stop it from being a sports utility vehicle. A sports car was not designed to go off road, and you could probably not take it off road even if you tried really hard. Is it discriminatory to say that a sports car is not a sport utitlity vehicle even though they both have "sport" in the name and are used for recreation?

The government may have no right to provide preferential treatment to either kind of relationship, but that doesn't make a gay relationship the same as a marriage.