Do you do find gay marriage repulsive?

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I'm not as comfortable with the concept of homosexual sex as I am with heterosexual sex, but I don't find two gays getting a contract from the government as repulsive.

I do find banning whatever one finds as repulsive to be repulsive though.

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No, I don't find it repulsive.  Yes, I think it should be legal.  Two people in love should never be kept from expressing that emotion.

Marriage isn't an expression of love, but whatever. Should a brother and sister be able to get married?

Yes.

[Lunar]

No, I don't find it repulsive.  Yes, I think it should be legal.  Two people in love should never be kept from expressing that emotion.

Marriage isn't an expression of love, but whatever. Should a brother and sister be able to get married?

Yes.

I hope you're joking.

I'm not.  Forcing arbitrary conceptions of morality on everyone else when there are no rights violations is the antithesis of my beliefs.

Like most social libertarians, I support getting the government's corrupting influence out of the holy institution of marriage all together and support civil unions as legal contracts to deal with people.  Yes, you should be able to get a civil union with your mother if you want.  It doesn't imply sex, merely a union to recieve the economic and legal benefits of such a bond.

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Slippery-slope arguments are silly.

I'm not uncomfortable with the idea of polygamy, but it seems a little unpractical and self-defeating to allow infinite amounts of civil unions.

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Slippery-slope arguments are silly.

I'm not uncomfortable with the idea of polygamy, but it seems a little unpractical and self-defeating to allow infinite amounts of civil unions.

Who said anything about a slippery slope? What's slippery about it?

I happen to be much less repulsed by polygamy than homosexual marriage.

Your argument was based on slippery slope logic, wasn't it?  Saying that if we legalize homosexual couples, we have to legalize polygamy, man-turtle relationships, etc. is rather silly.

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There is absolutely no justification for gay marriage that does not justify polygamy.

In fact, polygamy is a much more moderate change. I wouldn't care as much if we legalized that.

Most arguments for airport metal detecters also justify police states.

I'm in favor of legalyzing polygamy, but I'm just curious as to how one would implement it without it being self-defeating.

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If you're going to argue that not allowing gay marriage is discriminatory, and therefore is an evil that must be eradicated, then the same is true of polygamy.

Now, you can think gay marriage is fine but not polygamy, and that's fine, but then you can't use the discrimination argument.

I already addressed the fallacious nature of slippery slope arguments.

I don't care though, because I don't mind polygamy.

I justify my gay marriage argument typically in terms of limiting governmental power.