Gay Marriage

[LemmingofGlory]

Ashkael:
I believe that if homosexual marriage is made legal, the divorce rate of homosexual couples will be MUCH lower than the divorce rate of heterosexual couples. This is because homosexual couples only have each other to love since there are (usually) no children in the picture. It’s a more personal relationship.

This argument from conjecture is not particularly convincing, because someone can easily argue the exact opposite. In US culture, some people get married, remain married because of children, and (in some cases) become closer partners because of their mutual decision to raise children. In absense of children, one could argue it's easier to divorce because the relationship is the primary consideration, and thus divorce would be more frequent among childless couples than among couples with children.

So, I ask again, what problem do you have by letting me (and many others) live happier with our loved ones?

Beware loaded language. The counterargument would be that marriage will not make one happier in one's relationship, because marriage will not alter the quality of one's relationship. Thus, any couple can be just as happy in their relationship with legal entanglements as without.

Lastly, there’s that “if we allow homosexuals to marry, then we have to allow children to marry animals and etc.” Oh. My. God. Every single time I read or hear about a person using that argument, I just want to hand him a Darwin award.

Unfortunately, they do not qualify for a Darwin: The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it. Of necessity, this honor is bestowed posthumously.

How can anybody be so utterly stupid as to come up with such an argument against homosexual marriages? Somebody already smoked that argument in this thread by saying that marriage is a contract by law, and thus only consenting adults should be allowed to marry. But do we really need to get that technical (if that can be called technical)? It’s called common sense, people!

Well, yes, since we're discussing a matter of law it does need to be technical; law does not necessarily depend on common sense. Moreover, what makes sense to one person may not make sense to another due to different axioms.

-Lemmy