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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #30 on: November 10, 2011, 11:39:39 pm »
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it really has taken Australia too long to legalise same sex marriages
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2011, 08:52:55 pm »
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Yes let's allow people to marry animals! Cos the dog is capable of giving informed consent, and understanding and signing a marriage certificate!! Also, comparing homosexuals to animals is totally appropriate.

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Homosexuals are humans after all, unless you have any religious reservations against that. And human beings are animals, or more specifically, great apes. So its a valid case in point.
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2011, 09:01:45 pm »
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It is in no possible way a valid case in point, and the only reason to say it is is to be obsessed with semantics.

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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2011, 09:02:32 pm »
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Yes let's allow people to marry animals! Cos the dog is capable of giving informed consent, and understanding and signing a marriage certificate!! Also, comparing homosexuals to animals is totally appropriate.

*sigh*

Homosexuals are humans after all, unless you have any religious reservations against that. And human beings are animals, or more specifically, great apes. So its a valid case in point.

nice try but the issue is consent, not semantics
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2011, 09:39:43 pm »
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No, not semantics. I don't think you need a linguist to point it out. Yes the issue is consent, I am merely pointing out my belief that it is not inappropriate to compare the issue of marrying animals to that of gay marriages.

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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2011, 10:13:55 pm »
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So by your logic it is valid and productive to compare marrying animals to heterosexual marriages too.

1) what exactly is your point
2) how does this have anything to do with being against or for gay marriage
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #36 on: November 15, 2011, 11:06:42 pm »
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1) Opens up the possibility to question why consent have to be made an issue, which is productive because it relates to 2), that is if we are to legislate for gay marriage, it is only fair to legislate for all the other social taboos that exist. And to me, there's more of a issue there given as you have previously asserted, and I have taken to be quite true, that there are no rational arguments against gay marriages specifically.

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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2011, 06:33:06 pm »
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1) are you seriously asking why consent of the involved parties should be an issue in determining whether this type of marriage is valid?

if we are to legislate for gay marriage, it is only fair to legislate for all the other social taboos that exist
such as?
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #38 on: November 17, 2011, 06:41:16 pm »
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1) are you seriously asking why consent of the involved parties should be an issue in determining whether this type of marriage is valid?

if we are to legislate for gay marriage, it is only fair to legislate for all the other social taboos that exist
such as?

Polygamy and incestuous marriage.

Not that I think there is any problem with gay marriage in the slightest. Just that this is the argument used against it.
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #39 on: November 17, 2011, 07:03:54 pm »
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I don't see anything wrong with legalising polygamy and incestuous marriage as long as all parties are over the age of 18 and consent.
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #40 on: November 17, 2011, 07:04:21 pm »
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I'm against marriage in general.
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #41 on: November 17, 2011, 07:22:16 pm »
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Gay marriage should NOT be allowed.

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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #42 on: November 17, 2011, 07:43:39 pm »
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Gay marriage should NOT be allowed.
Why?
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #43 on: November 17, 2011, 07:45:20 pm »
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All those people that say marriage is sacred and should be blessed, and so forth and so on, confuse me; why then, is there such a thing, as divorce?

In my eyes homosexuals are no different from the last. It doesn't feel like we're trying to achieve any idea of a just society if we're going to shut part of it out. The old-age fear is ... irrational. Basically that.
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Re: Controversial Issue: Gay Marriage
« Reply #44 on: November 17, 2011, 09:19:17 pm »
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Gay marriage should NOT be allowed.
Why?

Because marriage should be between a man and a woman.