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In reply to the discussion: Equating or aligning polygamy with gay marriage is bigotry and has no place here.... [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Is REALLY not the best 'justification' for gay rights, be they the right to marry or otherwise.
Reason I say that is that I believe as time goes on, we are very likely to find that all manner of 'orientations', be they sexual, or violent, or whatever ... COULD well be just as 'inherent' ... as being attracted to one's own sex.
Pedophilia is a rather obvious potential candidate in my eyes ... I believe it's likely that someone could be 'born' ... attracted to young people. But that wouldn't make it 'okay' ... to engage in intimate relations with them, would it?
The 'reason' the homosexuality is 'okay' ... is because homosexuality (between age-appropriate partners) is freaking OKAY for fucks sake. WHO GIVES A SHIT whether people are 'born that way'? That is NOT the argument that anyone (IMHO) should fall back to on behalf of gay folks.
To my mind, it just opens the door for potential hypocrisy on our part later on down the line ... when something else that we DO NOT feel is 'okay' ... for example, like if being pedo (which I don't know EITHER WAY ... but neither do any of us) ... turned out to be a 'in-born' trait.
And so could 'being a killer' or 'being a thief' or all manner of other bad behaviors turn out, someday, to have a 'genetic' basis. We just don't know.
So to me, I argue that being gay is okay because there's nothing wrong with having sex with, or loving your own gender. PERIOD. And in this regard ... it's really pretty much the same argument as one could make for consensual polygamy being legal.
If this 'outlook' paves the way for polygamy, then honestly ... so be it. I refuse to hang my hat on the idea that being gay is 'okay, cuz you're born that way' ... it doesn't need that kinda justification. And frankly we play into the Right's hands when we make that argument, cause we got no idea what 'ways' people could eventually be found to 'be', according to their genes.