In all of the fervor over marriage equality lately, I have yet to find a single non-theological argument against it that holds up to even a cursory reasoned examination.
The founders of the country never put word one in The Constitution about marriage in any sense. And don't try to get into the whole literal vs. spirit debate. You don't want that when it comes time to talk about other things that actually ARE in there. Trust me.
Expanding a right to all never diminishes it. That's like saying giving everyone all the free apples they want makes it so you don't get as many apples. You're a lot less likely to get to enjoy your apples if the people who you said don't get any are staring, empty-handed, at you while you try and eat them every day.
Okay, so all cherrypicking aside, you've got a verse in The Bible that says, under one interpretation and context aside, that gay sex is wrong. Here's a solution...You've been stressing that teenagers can and will go without sex until marriage, which is why we shouldn't be educating them about it. So let's just have gay people promise they won't have sex, just be married. How does that sound? Feel better? Good.
What else? Ah, yes, the old snowball effect. If we allow this, next we'll be letting adults marry kids, men marry their snakes, all that sort of thing. What you're forgetting is that a legal marriage is a binding contract. We've already got a TON of safeguards in place to prevent anyone deemed incapable of reasoned consent from signing them. That includes kids and animals. So that one goes down the drain.
Finally, when it comes right down to it, you just don't want it because the thought of it makes you feel icky. Fine. You're entitled to think that, to feel that, even to say it. The thing is, you can't make legislation against something just because it makes you uncomfortable. Believe me, I wish you could, because bigotry and close-mindedness make me feel pretty icky.
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