Re: Gay marriages... dictated by religious authorities
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Thank you for making my point. I'm trying to show that HIS comments are invalid. Just because all cultures and all species do something doesn't mean it's normal or desirable behaviour. Get it?
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You are misrepresenting the direction of the argument. YOU were the first to use that line of reasoning in condemning gay marriage as somehow analogous to bestiality. Your plan was, I assume, to draw some connection to some shocking and 'obviously abhorrent' practice or something, and therefore attack gay marriage by association. Your analogy was terrible, and my little re-enactment was aimed at that.
But you are correct, if anyone was using the idea that societies in the past have condoned or accepted homosexual activity as some sort of proof that it is a moral practice, then they were wrong. However, if they were using that as support for the idea that homosexuality has a long history in humans and is also prevalent in nature, that is NOT the same false analogy that your were employing.
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