http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/04/1318512/-OMG-NOM-Not-Even-I-Was-Prepared-For-This-Level-Of-Stupidity?detail=email
Okay, this is the lowest new low that NOM has ever reached in their logic against marriage equality yet. In short, they are claiming that same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same. That statement does not exaggerate or misrepresent, I promise you.
Cue Brian Brown:
Dear Marriage Supporter,Definitions are important. They are the means by which we can reason together and communicate ideas intelligibly. Without definitions, social organization becomes impossible.The great English writer and Christian polemicist G.K. Chesterton illustrated this principle very clearly in his book Orthodoxy, by taking to task his friend, H.G. Wells, for a particular phrase that Chesterton called "not merely a misstatement, but a contradiction in terms."Wells had said once that, "All chairs are quite different." And Chesterton, with his characteristic wit and his common-sense, pointed out the obvious problem with that assertion: "If all chairs were quite different, you could not call them 'all chairs.'"A similar descent into meaninglessness has been the hallmark of the push to redefine marriage.
They're trying to draw parallels to the different chairs to the different marriages. But I am just blown away by their assertion that if two things are not exactly the same in every single regard, detail and characteristic, then they cannot have the same name. Let's extrapolate their logic to some other things.
A Toyota and a Hyundai have different manufacturers. Therefore, they cannot both be cars.
A Boeing and an Airbus have different manufacturers. Therefore, they cannot both be planes.
An Apple is different to a Microsoft. Therefore, they cannot both be computers.
America is a different country to Canada. Therefore, they cannot both be countries.
A red apple has a different color to a green apple. Therefore, they cannot both be apples.
And in case you haven't realized, Brian, not all straight marriages are the same as well.
Some straight couples are old, some are young. The fact that they are different in age they cannot both be married.
Some straight couples are black, some white, some interracial. The fact that their races are different means that they cannot all be married.
Some straight couples have children, some don't. The fact that their parental status is different means that they cannot both be married.
Brian, do you see how f****d up that is?
to me this just goes to show bigotry is insane and baseless, it also shows those who in the past cultivated this attitude had no reason other than they decided these people are not like us so we cannot allow them any of the trappings of us it may look like they are equal to us,
so with total disregard to the declaration of Independence in modern world, we know those founding guys were inclined to bigotry and racism relegating Blacks to 3/5ths of a human just to segregate and deny voting privilege. but today they extend the ideal of created equal by "THEIR CREATOR" sort of disassociates those discriminated against as not of their religious inclinations, but true believers know there is only one God, guess they were bad at math back then too.
haters are the ones who expend the most time and energy, those they hate either don't know or don't care and are at peace, those who do live a life of turmoil with a destiny that does have and endgame, they become those they persecuted by proxy as hate will no longer have a place that can be a majority.
