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To: hunter112
Sorry, all the slippery slope stuff doesn't wash with me. It certainly hasn't made any difference to the mushy middle. I don't see any more support for goat marriage in 2004 than I saw in 1969. Just because acceptance of adults engaging in consenting behavior with each other has increased in that 35 years did not have any influence on acceptance of bestiality, polygamy, or incest.

So you're saying it's ok for someone to go ahead and marry their car, their goat, or the neighbors dog if they want to? If not, you're a bigot.
Do they , although smaller in number, not have the same right to marry as a homosexual if they're engaging in some kind of kinky sex, and the car/goat/dog do not object??

291 posted on 07/14/2004 1:24:10 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: concerned about politics
So you're saying it's ok for someone to go ahead and marry their car, their goat, or the neighbors dog if they want to? If not, you're a bigot.

In other words, do I believe in majority rule? Sure, if we ever get to the point where enough Amercians want to marry their cars, I guess they can change the law to do so. Just don't make me pay alimony to my 1976 Gremlin, OK?

Seriously, something happened to homosexuals in this country in the last twenty or so years. They saw a lot of their own die from AIDS, and had to deal with the problems of hospital visitation, and hostile relatives upon death. Lesbians acquired children through artificial insemination, and have to deal with the problems of being parents. These problems were never faced by goat humpers, car worshippers, or one-night-stand threesomes. The respect that our society accords marriage has become appealing to some of them. Enough people know, or are at least acquainted with someone in a committed gay relationship to empathize with them. I don't know anybody who really is suffering because they can't marry their Mazda.

We CAN, as a society, draw distinctions between expressions of sexuality that are permitted, and those that are discouraged. We always have. It's just that there are enough people out there ready to think about moving the line on this particular facet. Is it possible to happen with other things in the future? Sure, anything is possible, but essentially all of what you fear down the slippery slope will have to overcome a crushing burden of convincing 90-99% of the people who are dead set against these acts.

310 posted on 07/14/2004 1:52:51 PM PDT by hunter112
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