Now explain how a gay person is being married is a square and straight is a circle? The only difference is the shared gender, this isn't squares and circles... It's circles and circles... If you want an example of why cherry picking in your case is disingenuous, go ahead and describe how different gay marriage to straight marriage is the same as the difference between a circle and a square...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
Because you you think a gay couple is so different than a straight one, it's line circles and squares. I have yet to hear a distinction so wide that would make gay marriage so different than straight marriage. It's identical... The difference with them being gay or straight is so minuscule, that the only factor is sexual orientation... That's why everything you say us a fallacy... You have yet to establish an inherent difference that changes a circle into a square. Unless you think sexual orientation is enough, because if that's the case, I'd recommend doing some reading on math...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
This isn't about compelling reasons or 'Why gays shouldn't be able to marry.' this is about equal rights and whether or not LGBT had them or not, which they did. Even if you want to call something what it isn't, that's a fact. Stop trying to change the subject. Using vague and biased words like 'justification' and 'compelling' don't help your case either. This is a discussion of facts, not feelings.
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When did I claim they weren't different? Why can't people just ask me a straight forward question that actually has to do with the topic, instead of putting words into my mouth and then trying to refute the words they put there themselves.
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
He has also said that he believes homosexuality is a choice.
I'm sure he's done in-depth research
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
Look, if you want to just keep stating nothing but your opinion and insulting me, then I don't see a point in responding to you, especially when we are discussing facts and not opinions.
I think Socrates said something like; the people who resort to slander in an argument are the ones who lost the argument. Too lazy to look up the exact quote now.
“Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things...But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.” - Francis A. Schaeffer