| theprof00 said: Sure marriage is sacred. This i understand. But marriage gets tax breaks and benefits like being able to see the otger in a hospital etc. Many religious right are against this despite it having nothing to do witg them. i already said in my opening post thar is wasnt a perfect picture.but just something I'd noticed. So u can stop with trying to skew it to something else. |
I don't understand your point above. Though I think you seem to misunderstand. Which is that basically nobody hasn't passed the first two stages mentioned in Kohlbergs work. Outside of like... Sociopaths and the mentally retarded.
Depedning on your theorist. Some argue that the 3rd and 4th stages are blown past by adults as well. Can't remember which group Kohlberg was in... and am starting to think that this was his view and that the "most people don't reach 5/6" was a later addition to his view though... been a while since I went back to my degree information... because well most of psychology annoys me.
Regardless the point is...
People according to Kohlberg get past the first two stages at like... 10 years old or so. Any moral reasoning stunting your seeing is likely just a misreprsentation of what there points actually are. Which is extermly common on a heated issue.
Your argument is clumsy because essnetially according to Kohlberg's work... EVERY position can be held no matter your level of moral reasoning.
It's perfectly reasonable to be at the 5th stage level and be against gay marraige.
The general argument made tends to be that Homosexuality is immoral, slippery slope yadda yadda... I'd rather not go into it because I don't believe it... however I do understand their arguement and their beliefs for it. (Just disagree vehemetly with it.)
It's pure fifth level reasoning though.
While gay marriage being a sin may have helped shaped their views, it's far from their actual reasoning of why homosexuality shouldn't be allowed.
