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re: Marriage Equality Argument - Pretty good point
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Anderson employs a very similar argument that people did when slaves were claiming they were being denied rights.
Just substitute "personhood" with "marriage". "Well Mr. Slave, you are not being denied rights because you are not a person".
Or woman
"Well Mrs. Suffragette, you are not being denied rights because voting is reserved for men"
Did you listen to the video clip? He made no such argument.
The argument slaves were not people was on its face wrong and at the time it was made was recognized as wrong by most of the population. Simple science could prove that.
Marriage has been at its core a relationship of man and woman throughout history. There was a limited recognition of same sex relations but they were not recognized as marriages. Marriage was Man:woman.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 7:29 pm
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Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:26 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
quote:He absolutely did. He claimed that no discrimination exists because the gay man has just as much of a right to enter into a marriage contract as a straight man. He is assuming that marriage has a concrete, timeless definition.
Did you listen to the video clip? He made no such argument.
It is no different than pro-slavery folks saying that personhood has a concrete, timeless definition, and slaves aren't a part of it, so there is no discrimination.
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