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Originally Posted by somerfrost
No the silly argument is your's...utter crap! Your analogies are all faulty...what you are in fact saying is akin to the following:
A black man wishes to rent an apartment and is told "whites only"...so, according to your logic, his rights aren't being violated cause the rules are the same for everybody, you're white, you can live there, if you're black you can't! Afterall, he's free to change his skin color right? Gay folks don't label themselves...they are labeled by society! Two people are in love and wish to marry...it's society that has a problem if they are of the same sex, and it's society that afixes labels!
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I completely disagree with your analogy. I don't think it is the same at all. In your analogy, you are telling a person of color that he can't do the same exact same thing that others are doing. In the gay analogy, a gay man is allowed to do the same thing that others ae doing. He is allowed to get married to a woman. You want him to be able to do something different and be able to marry a man.
I don't know you can say that gay people don't label themselves. Of coure they label themselves. Plenty of people come out and say they that they are gay. Soceity may label them too, but that doesn't mean that they don't label themselves.
Somer, I usually find you to be reasonable and open-minded on most issues. But once in a while like with this issue, you just can't accept anyone else's view point and think that your view point is the only reasonable one. I completely understand the pro gay-mariage view point. I can see the argument. I think there is some merit to it and I think that some of it makes good sense. I still lean the other way, but I respect the pro gay-marriage view point. I think that there are reasonable people who make good sense on both sides of the argument. Brian is in favor of gay marriage but he still understans and respects the views of people who are aginst it.
By the way, if they legalized gay marriage tomorrow, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I am against it, but I don't think it's a huge deal.