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Originally posted by albertGQ@Dec 11 2004, 07:56 AM
Now that gay and lesbians have their right to marriage (which was not something a few years ago they wanted, just equal rights), it will not be long before a father will fight to marry his daughter, or someone will want to marry their pet, or maybe, multiple wives or husbands. Welcome to Liberal Canada!
Derek Mason
(The times they are a-changin'.)
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Irregardless of whether the Sun supported that view or not, it still doesn't lead to a conclusion that legalizing gay marriage is a threat to cause other changes.
The "slippery slope" argument is that if you allow people X, they you won't be able to deny them Y.
Even if the legalization of gay marriage lead to some people
wanting to legalize other unions, it doesn't mean that we'll necessarily
have to do so.
In the 1960's
Trudeau repealed the law which made sodomy illegal, legalizing gay sex, but we still managed to keep the law against incest in force. And I don't even hear much of an outcry from people
wanting it to be changed.
The slope doesn't seem so slippery to me.