Auggie wrote on Oct 8
th, 2017 at 5:30pm:
Frank wrote on Oct 8
th, 2017 at 5:25pm:
All sorts of minorities are excluded from all sorts of laws
Such as?
Siblings who want to marry, can't. Citizens of other countries can't sit in Parliament. The blind can't get a driver's licence. And so on.
Frank wrote on Oct 8
th, 2017 at 5:25pm:
They can have a civil contractual partnership with gays of the same sex.
So, they can have a 'second-class' contractual partnership, but not a 'first-class' one? We shouldn't have segregation of civil relationship laws.
Either everyone can get married, or everyone can get civil unions. You can't pick or choose.
I'm willing to abolish legal marriage, and institute legal civil unions, and leave marriage up to religious institutions. Are you? [/quote]
Is it first class to be normal, heterosexual? Marriage is about the heterosexual nature of our species. That's what it has always been and everyone understood that, until 10 minutes ago.
Homosexuals are not just an alternative to heterosexuals, but as far as the species and societies are concerned, a complete dead end.
The churches sanctify marriage but you can marry without ever going to church (so it is not an exclusively religious institution). It is an exclusively heterosexual institution. That is the universal common thread across cultures and times.