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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch+Dec 11 2004, 08:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (CaptainCrunch @ Dec 11 2004, 08:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-FlamesAddiction@Dec 11 2004, 08:23 PM
If we are going to use the slippery slope argument, then it can be argued that having legalized straight marriages is a slippery slope because it opens the pandorra's box for all types of marriage.
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But straight marriage was written into law due to the fact that it was a centuries old tradition, based in peoples spirtual beliefs and recognised by governments because of that fact.
No matter what you believe religeous belief has only been seperated from government in the major democracies for maybe 50 years.
And straight marriages are considered a water mark of normalicy for the majority of the worlds population and any other kind of marriage whether gay, or farm animal or mother son is considered outside of the norm of the definition of traditional marriage. [/b][/quote]
There are a lot of things that were written into law and/or tradtional practices that are obsolete now. For centuries, it was legal, traditional, and even expected that a man discipline his wife by beating her. That was considered normal too. It was also spiritual in that the Bible promoted the image that women were inferior to men.
It's the 21st century. Things change.