TheProgressivePatriot
Gold Member
Hi all! I just thought that I would drop in with a little reality check-bomb. I have to laugh at the way some people take a simple matter and turn it into a tangled web of inane logical fallacies and outright idiocy. There facts are these:
1.The title of this thread is Killing "Homosexual " Marriage
2. "Homosexual " Marriage is now legal in every state and territory of the nation.
3. Efforts to thwart gay marriages on a state by state basis have been a dismal and even comical failure.
4. Efforts to stop gay marriage nationally, such as with a constitutional amendment are doomed to fail as well
5. Efforts to abolish government recognition of all marriage-either on a state or national level is likewise doomed.
6. The Obergefell ruling extended the right of marriage to same sex couples WHITHIN THE SAME PERAMETERS as enjoyed by opposite sex couples. Nothing more and nothing less no matter how one tries to twist it.
7. Siblings-either same sex or opposite sex were prohibited from marrying before Obergefell and that has not changed. Same for plural marriages.
8. With respect to #7, anyone who wants to have legal sibling or plural marriage is free to pursue it through legislation or a lawsuit. If it goes into litigation, the state who would oppose it will be required articulate a rational basis, or perhaps a compelling government interest- depending on the level of scrutiny afforded by the court- in maintaining bans on those practices.
9. With respect to #8, whether or not anyone here has been able to articulate a compelling government interest-that is acceptable to those who want to make it into a slippery slope fallacy- for maintaining those bans by states........they are still banned. It is useless to speculate on what states argument might be or what a court might do with such a case. In addition, it is NOT incumbent upon those who maintain that those practices were not "grandfathered in" by Obergefell to come up with said compelling reason(s)
You see,...... simple. You can all go home now.
But but but....what about Pop's poor Straw man!
Think of him!
I was.....and Boss. They don't stop. Sounds like desperation to me. I'm out of here again. I'll drop in again but there is only so much that I can take of them.