Why when someone suggests the idea of legalizing same sex marriages,some supposed Conservative?

Question

Immediately attaches that idea to bestiality and pedophilia?

This is definitely one of those areas that conservatives are deeply wrong on,why is it often posed as this slippery slope where if you legalize same-sex marriage all of the sudden it's "what if some wants to marry their dog?" or "should we then legalize pedophilia?" or nonsense like that. In fact I would say that many supposed Conservatives are absolutely deranged on this issue. So what is the real problem with legalizing Same Sex Marriage,why are you so threatened?

Answer 1

I don't like the idea simply because it is stupid and makes no sense. If they want some sort of legal protection fine but the fact that anyone seriously discusses marriage is just mystifying.

Answer 2

The argument is actually not that far off. In Canada there was a huge debate on wether or not same sex marriages should be legalized and the same conservative arguments were made there.

Canada did pass legislation last year legalizing same sex marriage and it was only a few months before a group was in court fighting for multiple partner marriages (polygamy). Exactly what conservatives said would happen.

Now marrying animals might be taking it a little far but there are groups in the USA and Canada that do fight for the right to have sex with and marry.....you guessed it, kids. You don't hear much about it because quite frankly most people are in denial. Men loving boys loving men is one such organization.

Answer 3

Marriage has a very important distinction. Since man first began to live in societies as one may imagine, many different combinations were tried. Everything from no marriages at all to multiple spouses. Yet, most every society came to find out that the best of these possible combinations was one man and one woman bound together and exclusive to each other, resulting in offspring that are the result of that union was the best model for the basic family unit. This family unit is the foundation of orderly societies.

So to drive this point home, this union was given special status and even special privleges. It was publically encouraged and various ceremonies emerged. The couple to be married received the blessing of the local officials.

Today, this ideal is still the best and the standard against which everything else is judged. You do not have to be married, you can live with someone, produce all the children with all the mates you wish. You can live with same sex, or opposite sex or any combination and numbers you wish. None, however, meets the ideal standard which remains one man, one woman united and all the offspring resulting.

Homosexuals couples are not the best standard for families. Does that make homosexuals bad people? No it does not. Does that mean homosexuals cannot be good parents? No, it does not. But they can never be ideal parents. For every child, the ideal is one father and one mother.

You cannot have more than one ideal standard. So you may have many other things call them "Narriage, or Parriage or Garriage" if you wish but under no circumstances can anything else be called Marriage if marriage is to have any meaning at all.

Answer 4

Because the arguments used to support 'same sex marriage' are usually of the form that homosexuality is a normal variation of human sexuality and should be accommodated by society. This naturally raises the question of what exactly this supposed range of human sexuality is. Clearly a person who practices bestiality or pedophilia will claim that their sexual preferences are also part of the normal range of sexual behavior.

It seems rather arbitrary to draw the line at homosexuality. It is more natural to draw the line based on scientific biological facts. Biologically speaking homosexuality cannot be a genetic trait because it would have been eliminated from the gene pool due to natural selection. Think about it, homosexuals cannot contribute their genes to the human gene pool due to their sexual orientation. Bestiality. peadophilia and homosexualty are all sexual behaviors that would be negatively selected under normal evolution. Thus it is my opinion that once one of these sexual orientation is included on the grounds that it is part of normal human sexual orientation, why shouldn't the others?

supercell (below) made a perfect point. What about incest? Should incestious marriages betweem adults be allowed? If you legalize same sex marriage because it is between consenting adults, why not incest or polygamy etc.

Answer 5

Because however you define what marriage is, you are going to exclude some people.
If you define it as a union of 2 people, then a man and two women, or a woman and two men will claim "it is wrong to discriminate against us. What we do in our own private lives is none of YOUR business."
Do you allow parents and their adult children. If you think it is gross, YOU have no right to judge. IF your concern would be what happens to their kids, what if the women is 85 and her husband/so, is 60. They can't have kids. So then what is your argument??
The question you need to ask is how do we "legally" what a marriage is.