stevestory
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in comment 485 mr B claims that so-called gay marriage...well, i'll just let him babble:
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StephenBMay 1, 2016 at 5:49 pm
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| Quote | Stephen, I also say it is wrong to deny marriage to same-sex couples. I don’t say “in my opinion, it is wrong ….”
Why am I right about slavery, but wrong and same-sex marriage? |
Because your knowledge of slavery is reasonably complete while your knowledge of the role of marriage is incomplete. Thus, your conscience is not sufficiently informed by reason to make moral judgments on the matter.
So-called “gay marriage cannot be marriage. It isn’t real. Marriage, by definition, is a covenant between a man and a woman that is ordered to the procreation and education of children and the unity and wellbeing of the spouses. This covenant is a product of the laws of God and nature. A homosexual union simply cannot qualify as that kind of institution.
Heterosexual marriage promotes the common good because it elevates the nuclear family as the primary institution of society. Accordingly, it reflects the proper purpose of sex and establishes the limits of how it ought to be used. The so-called union of “gay marriage” cannot play that role at all. It simply trivializes and perverts the real thing. Accordingly, it harms society in many ways:
First, it denies a child either a mother or a father. I have already provided the scientific evidence of the harm it does to children @342.. No one has refuted that study. Thus, there can be no principle of “equality” at stake because there can be no second or third kind of marriage. There can be only one kind of marriage.
Worse, gay marriage celebrates and justifies the homosexual lifestyle. When the secular state promotes this perversity, especially when it brainwashes children to accept it at an early age and pushes them to become a part of this perverse movement. In fact, gay marriage violates the common good of all members of society by frustrating the states purpose for benefiting heterosexual marriage. If the latter is just one among many, then there is no reason why the state cannot marginalize parents by usurping their role to raise children.
To grant a right to one person is take away the right of another. This is true in all cases. To grant one man the right to a free college education is to take away another man’s right to keep some of his tax money. Similarly, to grant homosexuals the right to marry is to take away societies right to give heterosexual marriage a special place.
There is no question of equality here becasue something that is unreal does not deserve the same consideration as something that is real. Gay marriage cannot be equal to heterosexual marriage because it isn’t real. Thus, the question of equal protection under the law is not even relevant. |
and then in 486 he complains about Activist judges! So he's going for some kind of Dipshit Bingo.
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