Dog Argument

Dad, further on down the post I wrote: "I find that I cannot express why I am against homosexual marriage in a manner that I consider to be adequate." While thinking of what to write I found an argument that used an example of marrying your pet bird. I consider your example of marrying your dog, just as fowl. (ha, ha, get it fowl=foul).

The best thing you have written concerning this topic to date is:
"At this point I sit back and I ask myself: how do I respond these questions and comments. Is this indeed none of my business? Is this indeed not going to hurt me? How will this affect me? I'm not sure. What I do know is that something is not right here. I feel violated somehow."

Lots of people feel like that. Lots of people also feel like me, like we are inadequate or possible not eloquent enough to discuss it or post about it. The problem that many people are also on the fence. Many people don't know what to think, they don't really think that homosexual marriage is a good thing, but they don't want to hurt anybody else's feelings. When people with good intentions try to persuade with "crazy" arguments rather than making a simple truthful argument the borderline people think, "That argument is pretty weak. The guy making it may or may not be crazy. The people supporting it (same sex marriage) are saying things like 'be fair' and 'equal rights'. I want to be fair and give everyone equal rights"

Jeff wrote: "I felt that the new law wouldn't really affect us. What does it matter to me as a straight guy whether or not two same gendered individuals are married by definition or just living together. It doesn't affect me." I had the feeling that he didn't really care what the law was as it didn't affect him. I guess I was wrong about that. His follow up posts don't paint that picture.

What I was trying to do with my posts was, to provide some sort of simple, non-marry-dog arguments against same sex marriage. To try to show, that, although there are people willing to present a case against same sex marriage that is pretty weak, that, there are also people who are reasonable, that believe every law in Canada affects them even if they don't run a-fowl of said law. (How about that? The same pun twice in one post.)

In conclusion, everybody please let this topic die, or continue through email. When I started this blog it was supposed to be entertaining and possibly informative. This discussion is not entertaining at all, and stopped being informative very quickly (if it could be considered informative at all.)

-Gary Milner, Sick of Internet Arguments