[Vision2020] Gay Marriage, again

[Scott Dredge]

Muddy the waters if you wish, Douglas.  I expect that
this issue will be decided at some point by the
Supreme Court in much the same way that all sodomy
laws were struck down.  It's an easy call since it
involves fundamental fairness.  Same sex couples will
have the same legal rights as married couples.

-Scott

--- Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com> wrote:
> Visionaries,
> 
> Slippery slopes do exist, and cannot be wished away.
> And your 
> counter-example goes wildly amiss. A man with one
> wife and three 
> girlfriends is not the same as a man with four
> wives. The three girlfriends 
> do not enjoy "all the legal benefits of marriage."
> 
> Either legal marriage confers something of value or
> it does not. If it 
> does, this explains why homosexuals want access to
> it. But this also means 
> that unmarried heteros do *not* have access to those
> same benefits, whether 
> they are in an adulterous relationship or not. And
> if legal marriage does 
> not confer anything of real value, then why does
> anyone want it?
> 
> It would be far better to do what Ted did, and just
> swallow the reductio. 
> And when everyone does this, there are some more
> outrageous possibilities 
> waiting in the wings. Which I will be happy to
> mention when we get there.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Douglas Wilson
> 
>