“Legalize love?” Are they playing stupid just to get under our skin, or are they actually that stupid? Declining to recognize a particular partnership as a “marriage” is NOT the same as wanting to outlaw that partnership and any like it, and certainly not the same as outlawing “love.” The debate over the legal definition of marriage has NOTHING to do with love, sex, or anything citizens may consent to do with each other in their private lives. You cannot objectively define an emotion and enforce it as the term of a legal contract involving tax money.
And just to be annoyingly predictable: if marriage is nothing but a validation of people’s love for each other, does that mean love between more than two people isn’t realize love? Otherwise, anyone who opposes marriage licenses for more than two partners, even while advocating same-sex marriage, is as guilty as any of trying to “illegalize love.”
*real, not realize.
You are 100% correct in all you say. But, see, you are thinking reasonably, and basic logic is hard to refute. So buzzwords and catchphrases and bumpersticker slogans such as “Legalize Love” will simply drown pesky people like you out. ;) Of course MANY people who support one man/one woman traditional marriage feel it is fine to legalize civil unions. But this Google slogan makes short work of that, huh? Even National Organization for Marriage, which supports Civil Unions, was deemed officially a HATE group. Orwellian Newspeak is clever. Quite clever.
Excellent reasoning. I hope you don’t mind if I steal this from you?? Well, not really stealing if I ask permission first ;)
“And just to be annoyingly predictable: if marriage is nothing but a validation of people’s love for each other, does that mean love between more than two people isn’t realize love?”
or between a person and an animal, or a person and children. Marriage is an utterly meaningless & pointless institution in theses people’s minds definition.
Certainly a repressive institution that it would seem to attempt to prohibit their love for anyone but the one to whom they are betrothed. So the question is why is it that a leftist would want to get married if marriage is simply about love?
I blame our side and the cowards who stay silent in conversation, who will not stand up, the Docs which know this is unhealthy but stay silent, our party which shuts up or tries to appease these people.
If civil unions had not been given under the guise of it's their private bedroom business then we would not be here right now having this sick perverted crap no pun pushed onto us.