Originally posted by Davo:By saying passing an amendment promoting heterosexual marriage is moral engineering, are you implying that homosexuality is immoral?
First, these gay marriage bans do not promote heterosexual marriage. Heterosexual marriage is equally available whether the homosexual marriage is allowed or not.
Second, it's a fact that homosexuality is immoral to many people. The moral engineering comes in when those people use government to force other people to live according to those morals.
Quote: And just out of curiosity, do you think forcing homosexual marriages upon people who clearly do not want them is moral engineering?
Nobody is forcing homosexual marriage on anybody. I am not advocating a law that allows you to only marry somebody of the same sex. I am not advocating any law which would make it illegal to believe homosexual marriage is immoral and to live according to that belief.
I see no need or desire to change anybody's morals, or the ability to live according to those morals in any way. That is what moral engineering is: forcing people to live according to the morality of another.
A heterosexual can think, believe, and do all the same things whether homosexual marriage is legal or not.
