Caladaria wrote:Is there not a single person on this website who is in the right? Not a single person who disagrees with gay marriage? And the people here are very uncivilized. A civilized forum would not see such vitriol spewed out. Reasonable people would see the points in my argument.
And I was talking about the institution of marriage itself.....Polygamy, sex slavery, etc. were horrid abuses, but marriage between a man and a woman is not. Logical fallacies, contradictions, and so on and so forth: this is what I have been confronted with. And always the case that one who opposes gay marriage is automatically a homophobe or a bigot. Why would the focus be on gay marriage: it should be on economic and educational equality and on fulfilling the dream of Dr. King's speech. Slavery and Jim Crowism were far more horrid then anything experienced by homosexuals in this country: then of course, you would say that you are right and I am wrong. I know of Matthew Shephard and of others who were murdered because they were homosexuals. Now, I believe that he and others should never have died, and that they were born as Nature made them. Homosexuals are equal to everyone else, with the same rights as everyone else...But gay marriage does not fall under that definition. You will of course say that I rely too much on authority, on tradition, and on religion. However, I only rely upon what is in the right. These are my own beliefs, and I stand firmly behind them.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” This is the essential basis of my beliefs.
Then you should reasonably understand why I, and other LGBT people, how we feel when we are told that we cannot marry the one we love.
How do you think that feels? To be told "No, you cannot marry the one you love. It is unnatural. It "violates" the institution of marriage?