@avenger: the fact you have it illegal is nothing but a testemon of the "uniqueness" of your legal system. Laws from the middle ages are technically still in effect but noone enforces them. And if they did, youd find it veeeery easy to declare them unconstitutional and agaisnt the general norms of civilized nations. Such querks in your paperwork are not arguments to support the validity of such blatantly absurd and discriminating "practices" but only punchlines and sorce of laughter if not ridicule in the legal and indeed general community.
Mister Sandman wrote:
If people are allowed to practice whatever they want...
Why not allow people to practice terrorism then?
Why not legalise murder, rape, and pillaging?
Why not legalise cannibalism?
Enabling homosexual marriage questions the stance on morality and issues of our "liberalness".
Homosexual marriage is moral terrorism, it ultimately kills, rapes and robs people of their innocence. It eats away at the flesh of society and ethics.
It still happens even if in "private". No marriage is private. Nothing is private.
As I keep on saying, I have nothing against homosexuals, Just the idea of enabling these abominations is condoning the sin and therefore wrong.
There is a lot of loling material in there, if you get past the fact all the above mentioned comparrisons are frankly offensive to intelect, but the bold part takes the ultimate cake, considering the context heh. Its allways funny to see that deep deep down even the sternest critics and "haters" feel some need to be apologetic, at some level atleast. "I hate all racists and all blacks" thing hehe...
The only "moral terorism" here is one of the conservative belief that a legalized same-sex union is a "sin" and will be "detremant to the innocence of our society" and that therefore that particular conservative notions must be legalized. Netherlands legalized this unions almost a decade ago + they legalized weed. And strangley enough they have yet to be swolen up by the ocean or descend into anarchy.
Seriously? I dunno where you have been living but todays society, especially that in the US, is anything BUT "innocent" lol. And the bigest kick in the head is that the main critics of things tend to also support the polar opposites. Pro life people clinging to their guns for their life (pun intended). A naked woman on tv is detremental to childrens morals and psyche whilst every one loves a good action flick with killing galore etc. etc. Honestly, a lesbian couple getting a few rights is the least of todays societies problems. I call that good old fashioned hypocracy.
In other words, people are free to do whatever they want. As long as they do what we want/condone them to do. A plural society of one heh.
And to the people that keep bringing up the "evolution blunder" argument... There are studies that show Earth could comfortably accomodate no more than 3bil humans. 50% of our current number. Perhaps this is not "unnatural" but a natural balancing mechanism?
All joking aside, however you think they "came about", theyre still here and theyre human freaking beings in the 21st century. As are "we normal ones", so the rumour goes. (And I thought we were the ones fighting extremism. ;P)
But, alas, Miss4tunE is probably right. You have zero chance of convincing someone entrenched in the rationalle of their particular "etos"... You have to weather it out till realisation of the fears being unfounded comes about. Happened before, for anal sex for instance. And our gr8 gr8 gr8 grandchildren will prolly be shaking their heads at people of color riding on the back and of the bus and homosexuals being second class citizens in numerous aspects. Something for all of you to look forward too heh.
Decadent Europe leading the way, all the way baby. lulz.
For Rome!