SSM Plebiscite

[crashlander]

This is the Forrest Gump argument.  He started running and then kept on running.  Right across the USA.  Then all of a sudden, he decided to stop running.

Just like Forrest, we can stop whenever we want.  We don't experience what chess players know as zugswang - a compulsion to move. 

Allowing ssm merely means that monogamous marriage is open to all.  It can hardly open the door to polygamous marriage, or marriage to children, animals or inanimate objects.  If there is any such tendency, then it was set in motion by the introduction of marriage between heterosexuals.  Maybe we should ban marriage altogether?

There was a ban on whites marrying blacks in the US.  Conservatives supported that law when the Supreme Court was considering overturning it (which it ultimately did).  Was it wrong to do so?  Was it wrong to overturn bans on ssm on the grounds of equal rights?

I don't think it was wrong. I think that societies that descriminate against their citizens are depriving themselves of a considerable portion of their human resources, It is stupid.
I just find that we are NOT thinking of all of the consequences. In fact, most people in this debate are only thinking very short term and very local, There are other things that this means that people are not even conisdering. I think they should.
I don't have anything against ANY form of marriage. None of them is perfect, but all of them provide happiness for the people involved in them. Some work, some do not, as they are all made of contrary humans. That is fine. I would like to see most forms of marriage legalized. I would hate to argue against any form, especially on biblical themes. But I don't see that our society is ready for something that radical. It is going to take time and a lot of mature discussion, neither of which is present in any reasonable supply. Too much scare mongering and not enough ... sense?

Banning marriage: have you seen any of "The Handmaid's Tale"? This is about as dystopian a society as I have come across before. Marriage is useless, as few, if any of the wives can bare children. Women who can concieve are handed out to the powerful to provide them with offspring and the sex they have is extremely ritualistic and totally free of passion.