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Originally Posted by valo403
Assuming you don't beat your wife due to anger derived from repressed homosexual desires. 
Seriously though, what's the legitimate argument against gay marriage? It seems as though you think you have one, and I'd love to hear it as nobody else has come up with one as far as I know. |
A legitimate argument is that we were given instructions on what is right and what is wrong by a perfect divine creator and just as we were instructed not to murder, we were told that homosexuality is wrong.
That you don't share that belief does not make it an illegitimate argument and de-legitimizing that belief (and mocking religious belief in general) is bigoted because you are belittling the thing that many people hold most dear. Put another way, people who mock religious people for defending their most personal beliefs are showing intolerance for a group of people whose beliefs are different from their own, the very definition of bigotry.
Fortunately (in my opinion), we do not live in a Theocracy where the rules of a divine creator are also the Laws of the Land. We are in a democracy that has chosen to live under the aegis of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which does not allow for the imposition of laws that unreasonably discriminate against people. Our courts (also our choice through the selection of our system of government) said that the old definition of marriage was discriminatory and thus our parliament (also our choice) has changed the law.
I agree with all of those steps but I understand how people could believe those choices are wrong.