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Originally Posted by peter12
There is a variety of empirical sources that show that homosexuals, especially males, do not view monogamy in the same way that heterosexuals do. That is to say, that most homosexuals believe that being married does not mean that you must exclusively have sex with that one person. Now, I'm actually not using this as some moral precept against homosexuals, what I think it indicates is that homosexuality includes SOME sort of lifetime promiscuity.
Gay marriage creates new social norms, one that is approved by the majority which is heterosexual. Approving of gay marriage basically means approving of gays when they follow what is basically a heterosexual bourgeois lifestyle. That is, married, monogamous, with children. This imposes a standard of morality that homosexuals need to follow for acceptance but which may be contrary to the lifestyles they want to lead.
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There's even more empirical evidence that homosexuals are in overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. Yet you still want to deny them that right in a concern for imposing a standard of morality on them. A standard of morality that you can't even prove would be transferred to homosexuals if they were allowed to marry, and one that's already changing towards heterosexual couples. Furthermore, society already applies different standards of expectation towards them, there's no reason that would change simply because a law was passed.
This all sounds the logic of someone that decided his position before thinking about it and then rationalized his position by cherry picking some unreferenced "empirical sources" and presented under the guise of trying to appear enlightened. You've achieve the opposite in my opinion.