“It’s funny that you concede almost all of my points yet I don’t see you being a cheerleader for incest rights, lowering the age of consent or eliminating the prohibition against polygamy.”
First of all, I didn’t concede almost all of your points.
And if incest rights, lowering the age of consent or eliminating the prohibition against polygamy were the issues being debated here, perhaps I would be a cheerleader for them. But they’re not.
“Apparently the homesexual ‘lobby’ has strong enough financial backing to build the grassroots groundswell of support.”
No, but they do have the enlightened portion of the population on their side.
“As to being brainwashed, that’s YOUR opinion. I could argue that many of your views are the result of ‘brainwashing’ by the media and your liberal idealogues.”
If that’s what you want to argue, then argue it and we’ll go from there. But I think you also think they were brainwashed and I don’t think you’re ready to say that they weren’t.
“your liberal idealogues.”
I don’t have any liberal idealogues. I come up with my own ideas.
“Finally, you may disagree with the notion of ‘social norms’ but they are a fact of life unless you are a hermit. Even if you were living in a commune, there would be things that are aren’t ‘acceptable’.”
Meet meadandale. And welcome to the 1950’s. Just because something doesn’t conform doesn’t mean it should be illegal.
“Cannibalism, murder, polygamy, etc ad nauseum–virtually anything that you can think of is subject to cultural and societal influences. Human sacrifice used to be common amongst some quite advanced cultures. Today we mostly frown upon it. How come? We certainly don’t have a problem killing our enemies. Why not capture them live and gut them on an altar to appease our ‘god’?”
We as a society have fortunately moved to a place where doing things that harm others is usually illegal. We frown upon human sacrifice because it causes harm to an innocent person. Do you really need me to answer that for you?
