emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
- Jan 21, 2010
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It's a classic theocratic argument. He wants God to rule, but he wants someone other than God to make the rules.
It's called consensus. Since we cannot prove such things,
and since we rely on our personal religious and political beliefs,
the standard we end up going by is whether we consent or not and what we consent to.
So in order to include all people's relative beliefs and values, of what we consent to or not,
this means a consensus on subjective policies that affect our personal lives which govt is not supposed to dictate for us.
We have courts in case the consensus is wrong. Don't forget what the rightwingers love to call consensus...
...mob rule.
ROFLMNAO!
You can't BUY that level of delusion...
I mean THAT is a 'person' who claims that "THE SEAS ARE RISING"... when in reality, the seas are not rising and "THE ICE CAPS ARE MELTING!", when in reality... the caps melt and freeze... as Ice Caps do.
But most importantly, this 'person' claims that behavior which not only deviates from the human physiological norm, but deviates as FAR FROM THAT NORM AS IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE... does not deviate from that standard normality AT ALL!
In other words, that 'person' is perpetuating a perversion of human reasoning, presenting profound DELUSION.
And it further demands the RIGHT to have those delusions be EQUAL to the 'views' of EVERYONE ELSE! Claiming the such a right is protected in the 14th amendment which protects the rights of racial minorities to not be treated any differently than racial majorities.
Again... she's nuckin' futs.
Name one unique harm that legal same sex marriage would do to society.
So you're requiring that for a harm to be valid, the harm that such has caused needs to be 'unique; being the only harm of its kind; a harm unlike any other harm', for it to be considered?
So pedestrian 'harm', which would naturally occur as a result of redefining normality to include abnormality, would therefore not be something which would concern you?
Seems a tad subjective to me; unreasonable, distinct from any sense of the sort which serves viable citizenship... .
But, I would add that a culture that normalizes perverse reasoning, will quickly become perverse, as human history has proven repeatedly... with the landslide into decay and debauchery over the last 22 years has proven once again.
Would you care to offer a potential upside to a culture which embraces perversion?
Where_r_my_Keys and NYcarbineer
Where is the harm caused by a Cross or a Bible that an Atheist sues to remove from public property
because it promotes a belief they don't have?
If the Atheist wasn't required to provide proof of harm before Courts forced Crosses to be removed, why is this required here?
Isn't it enough to argue that it "establishes a belief" through govt that the opponent(s) don't believe in?
What works for the Atheist, should work for anyone else
unless there is a political agenda to discriminate by creed....