07-03-2015, 05:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-03-2015, 03:49 PM by LemmingofGlory.)
(07-03-2015, 02:44 AM)DeeBye Wrote: Even that argument doesn't hold water. Many Christian religions don't allow divorce, and adultery is a sin. Both of these relate directly to marriage, but I don't see the same vehemence against divorcees and adulterers.
Not anymore. Times have changed since being shunned for being divorced or cheating (note the disuse of "adulterer" as a stigma in modern parlance) were commonplace. But these things could, in the past and especially for women, result in being ostracized. There wasn't a united movement to do it. It just happened. Over time, those attitudes changed.
Fundamentally, this is identity politics. People are gay, as a characteristic. And I think opponents of gay civil marriage identify so strongly as "Christian" that they consider opposing gay anything a fundamental characteristic of that identity. They're trying to appear persecuted so that they look like victims because their analogy is broken.
-Lem