If you support same-sex marriage than you have to support incestuous same-sex marriage too. There is no argument that can be made for or against incestuous same-sex marriage that doesn’t apply to regular same-sex marriage also. So ask same-sex marriage proponents if they support incestuous same-sex marriage and why or why not. If they say because it’s immoral, well, pot kettle black.
Bottom line is the definition of marriage is linked to what promotes reproduction and the family. It exists as an institution to promote proper, stable child-rearing. It does not exist to promote self-gratification of a sexual fetish. Believing that doesn’t mean you “hate” anybody. Not wanting to encourage smoking doesn’t mean you hate smokers.
One doesn’t have to be a Christian to oppose homosexual marriage. There’s certainly a spiritual, moral case to be made against homosexuality, but there’s a natural order argument against it, too.
Homosexuality goes against the natural design of the human body. A society of heterosexuals can procreate and survive the natural world. A society of homosexuals cannot.
BTW, I’m not saying that homosexuality isn’t naturally occurring. It is, but so are many other dysfunctions. It doesn’t even matter if homosexuals are made that way. If that was possible, it still doesn’t change the natural order of things. We can look upon them with sympathy and maybe even tolerate their behaviors, but we cannot rationally claim homosexuality is normal in the way that heterosexuality is.
‘Bottom line is the definition of marriage is linked to what promotes reproduction and the family. It exists as an institution to promote proper, stable child-rearing. It does not exist to promote self-gratification of a sexual fetish. Believing that doesn’t mean you “hate” anybody. Not wanting to encourage smoking doesn’t mean you hate smokers.’
Well put. Sadly, we live in an age that has given itself over to narcissism as the primary goal.