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I can't believe i have to say it, but donating to a cause, no matter how misguided, is meant to effect the public opinion in a certain way through certain channels. Asking for his job, his head or his property because of his opinions is bullying [mob rule is a better term], not civil discourse!

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Proposition 8 was not a campaign to change the political views of people. It had but one purpose, and that purpose was to declare a subset of the population legally unequal to everyone else.

Everything is political, unless you presume that laws come from nature or from god. If we 're all defacto equal vs marriage, then i could marry my 6-year old cousin.

If we 're all defacto equal vs marriage, then i could marry my 6-year old cousin.

Just so you know, the official slippery-slope argument is "I could marry my horse".

i was referring to the appeal to nature rather than to a slippery slope

Is your 6-year old cousin a consenting adult?

Why should the majority opinion get to say who's an adult and who's not? Aren't we taking away the rights of minors to marry by claiming that they're relationship would somehow be different to a traditional one?

You anti-minor-marriage bigot you.

(To be clear, this is sarcasm hopefully in the service of making a point. I am not arguing for marriage between adults and minors.)

C'mon now, illustrations of a slippery slope oughtn't start so far down the hill.

So, what about a post-menopausal mother marrying her adult son? If "consenting adults" is the standard, it must be sanctioned as "marriage," yes?

For the record, I'm not really against gay marriage, but I am staunchly against inconsistent reasoning in service of realpolitik.

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