dsgrue3 said:
You're entitled to your opinion, but emotional arguments don't carry any weight I'm afraid. Homosexuality is a natural occurance and is found in the animal kingdom. Your definition of marriage seems to be born of religion and misses the underlying point. It's a cultural ritual to signify a partnership between two people until death do them part. There is simply no need to redefine a perfectly good term. If religious people want to differentiate themselves, they can call it something else that pertains to their religion. It isn't a religious exercise, it's a cultural and legal one. |
I found this somewhat funny. You say thorin is giving emotional responses that miss what the underlying meaning of a marriage is, and then you give your emotional response in return. Marriage is NOT about a partnership until death. If it was, we wouldn't have divorce!
Anyways, marriage has different meaning for different people but if you keep ripping away the slopes, it comes down to what it means legally (the benefits). I just wanted to pop in here and say this, I don't really have anything else I feel like contributing towards this talk. Good luck debating it out guys. =)
