Nobody is proposing to make gay men and lesbians wear pink triangles and then deny pink-triangle-wearers the right to get married to opposite-sex partners.
They just think that sex between people of the same gender is immoral, It's true that racists thought that sex between people of different "races" was immoral, and just as most Americans think that sex between adults and children, or horses and people, or sex between siblings, or group sex, is immoral. The belief that sex between people of different "races" was immoral did generally originate in beliefs that one race was superior to others: pure, unpolluted, and so on. But the other beliefs do not necessarily rely on bigotry against children, or people who find children sexually attractive, or horses, or farmers, or people who aren't only children, or people who are sexually attracted to their siblings, or people in open marriages.
All of these moral intuitions are fundamentally founded on disapproval of some activity, not some social group, although of course they tend to result in disapproval of social groups that promote that activity (e.g. NAMBLA).
Of course, people who genuinely do hate farmers, or pedophiles, or gay people, or polyamorists, will be drawn strongly to one side of the debate. And they may be among the most vocal advocates on that side. But in the case at hand, the vast majority of people on the other side of the issue from you aren't motivated by hate. They just don't want the state to officially sanction a behavior they abhor.
I'm surprised that you think the issues shakauvm brought up are all problems. Do you really think same-sex couples should have to go from town to town searching for a justice of the peace who's willing to perform their marriage?
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Date: 2008-11-05 01:26 am (UTC)They just think that sex between people of the same gender is immoral, It's true that racists thought that sex between people of different "races" was immoral, and just as most Americans think that sex between adults and children, or horses and people, or sex between siblings, or group sex, is immoral. The belief that sex between people of different "races" was immoral did generally originate in beliefs that one race was superior to others: pure, unpolluted, and so on. But the other beliefs do not necessarily rely on bigotry against children, or people who find children sexually attractive, or horses, or farmers, or people who aren't only children, or people who are sexually attracted to their siblings, or people in open marriages.
All of these moral intuitions are fundamentally founded on disapproval of some activity, not some social group, although of course they tend to result in disapproval of social groups that promote that activity (e.g. NAMBLA).
Of course, people who genuinely do hate farmers, or pedophiles, or gay people, or polyamorists, will be drawn strongly to one side of the debate. And they may be among the most vocal advocates on that side. But in the case at hand, the vast majority of people on the other side of the issue from you aren't motivated by hate. They just don't want the state to officially sanction a behavior they abhor.
I'm surprised that you think the issues