Originally posted by Zoom Zoom Diva:First, these gay marriage bans do not promote heterosexual marriage. Heterosexual marriage is equally available whether the homosexual marriage is allowed or not.
The amendments are written as a promotion of heterosexual marriage, not a banning of gay marriage. There is a difference between "marriage should only be between a man and a woman" and "marriage cannot be between two men or two women".
Originally posted by Zoom Zoom Diva: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. 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.
But wouldn't the people on the other side of the debate see the legalization of gay marriage as forcing immorality upon them? I don't necessarily believe that, I'm just trying to put the other side into perspective.
