--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: <snip> > > The "box turtle" statement above is really making the > > case against gay marriage by not making the case: It > > is not telling you what is wrong with gay marriage, > > but rather saying that if you allow gay marriage then > > you will have to allow something else you might not like." > > > > Read more... > > http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/29/8452 > > http://tinyurl.com/brsdvm > > That's one way of looking at it; another way is to say > that those that support gay marriage and not other > kinds of marriage are hypocrites.
Not if same-sex marriage is much more similar to opposite-sex marriage than it is to these "other kinds of marriage," which it obviously is. If there were a movement in favor of incestuous marriage or polygamy or box-turtle marriage as substantial as there is in favor of same-sex marriage, you might have a point (although there would still be good arguments against it), but there isn't.
