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Laila619|1435861287|3897993 said:From the people I know who oppose gay marriage, here is what I have gathered...1) they are upset because the definition of "marriage" has been sullied in their mind. It is between one man and one woman. Not two women, not two men. 2) They worry that the country is in moral decay and that this is a slippery slope. Next people will want to allow three people to get married, or an adult and an underage child, or a brother and a sister, or a person and his pet. What will be next? 3) They do not believe that a gay marriage is the optimal environment for a child to grow up in. Children need both a mother and a father. Neither parent is replaceable. 4) Their religion tells them that it is a sin. They very much believe it is.
Note: these are not my opinions. These are merely what I have heard from opposers of gay marriage.
Can we have a mature and calm discussion about those points?
I hear you that this is not your perspective.
It's challenging to be mature and calm when they threw the first rock by saying I 'sully' their marriage, and by calling marriage equality moral decay.
Marriage equality is actually the end of one form or moral decay that THEY caused.
The status quo was they were superior, and I was inferior.
Now we are equal (in only this one way ... so far ).
They are pissed they have lost their superiority (superiority disguised as morality).
What they've been taught (that gay is more sinful than straight) is wrong, and now they have to drop it and spend generations adjusting to what is right.