Believe me, gay marriage is really wrong. You’d even love to join the group:
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all;women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms, just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
*A little recontextualisation: the reasons are valid not only in America.
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Above is an except I came across on sin-stuff.com written by username: Right. This illustrates the flaws in the reasoning against same sex marriage simply by stating the logic being used when determining that same sex marriage is wrong. Though clearly there was a hint of sarcasm, these claims definitely lack validity in the real world and are definitely not new to the debate of legalizing gay marriage.
Ah, logic! I know I'd seen this somewhere before. Thanks for posting it! I find myself thinking that people who use these arguments really haven't stopped to think about the lack of logic behind them, especially when someone satirizes them. It's just sad that these are still excuses people use to try to claim that same-sex marriage is wrong. What really irks me, in addition to this list, are the following two:
ReplyDelete1. If gays marry, then what's stopping us from letting people marry animals or kids or inanimate objects? I die a little when I hear that one.
2. Well, I might as well be able to marry three people, two men and four women, etc... if gays can marry. The ignorance is overwhelming.
Those arguments are the slippery slope arguments and are never rooted in logic. Slippery slope arguments are intrinsically, preternaturally weak.
ReplyDeleteFOR EXAMPLE:
"Well, if THAT is allowed to happen, then WHY not .... (insert insane event here)"
The second is not a logical corollary of the premise.