Right Wing Rejection of Same Sex Marriage Full of Fallacies
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:48:37
It is a time of fear in the face of freedom a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths a measure of an emptying country and swelling cities yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times but we proceed nonetheless adapting as we go reshaping the hide with every tread. Behind us we undergo left the old times the standard times the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.
Right wing psychologist Trayce Hansen is among those who argue compete marriage rights for homosexual couples and heterosexual couples. She lends her credentials as a psychologist to give the veneer of professionalism this opinion but then uses non-psychological arguments to support her claims.
For example one of the rationales Hansen gives for rejecting equal marriage rights for all American couples is that allowing same-sex marriage would force the government to give recognition to other forms of marriage as well. She writes,
“If society permits same-sex marriage it also will undergo to allow other types of marriage. The legal logic is simple: If prohibiting same-sex marriage is discriminatory then disallowing polygamous marriage polyamorous marriage or any other marital grouping will also be deemed discriminatory. The emotional and psychological ramifications of these assorted arrangements on the developing psyches and sexuality of children would be disastrous. And what happens to the children of these alternative marriages if the union dissolves and each parent then “remarries”? Those children could end up with four fathers or two fathers and four mothers or you fill in the blank.”
1. “If society allows same-sex marriage it also will have to allow other types of marriage.”2. Other types of marriage than monogamous are harmful to children.3. Non-monogamous types of marriage can result in children having more than one father or mother.
Hansen’s first point is easy to refute. One need only remember that the same justification was made against allowing couples of different ethnicities to marry in the United States..[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2007/10/27/trayce-hansen-bunk-reason/
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