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Originally posted by Thunderball@Dec 13 2004, 09:50 PM
Perhaps you weren't paying attention. No one has disproved the slippery slope theory when it comes to legal precedent. Find me something that proves that if gay marriage passes, we won't have to legalize polygamy or bestiality, and don't say because no one will try, cause thats just being naive.
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Here you go: the Federal Human Rights Commission, addressing the gay marriage issue, states flat out that that the justification for legalizing gay marriage wouldn't apply for polygamy:
This Committee has also heard arguments that a change in the legislation would prompt unions of various sorts, including polygamy and others. The reason we see the ban on same-sex civil marriages as discrimination is because discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is included in our Act. The Canadian Human Rights Act recognizes discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation as unlawful because Parliament chose to include it in the legislation. Canadian human rights law has not extended the definition of sexual orientation beyond heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. Sexual orientation does not include polygamy or other types of unions
And even if you ignored this, the fact that it's been 40 years since we legalized gay sex and no one has challanged the incest or polygamy laws in court is proof enough that it's not naive to assume that it won't happen with gay marriage.
Now would you please drop this stupid argument.