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I still have yet to hear an argument against non related, single, same gendered/sexed, adults marrying that doesn't involve religion or slippery slope beastiality.
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I have heard one. Basically, the argument goes that legalizing gay marriage will make it harder for people to bring up their children with the belief that gayness is evil and sick, and thus it's an infringement on the rights of parents to bring up their children as they see fit. In essence, the people making this argument were in the mainstream of American thought 40 years ago, and they liked being in the mainstream and never having to explain to their kids why they stood outside of it. Now they see the mainstream moving away from them. Rather than moving along with it, or staying where they are and making peace with the fact that they disagree with the mainstream, they're demanding that the mainstream stay put. And that's just not how the world works.
I have no doubt that the parents who make this argument are right about gay marriage making their job of instilling bigotry more difficult -- it's a lot harder to raise KKK-believing children in this country than it was when interracial marriage was illegal. But KKK parents are still able to teach their belief system to their children, and homophobes will be able to in the future, regardless of how far the mainstream moves away from homophobia.
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