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wannabuyamonkey said:
I would agree with you entirely and yet there are people who would make similar if not the same arguments about same sex marraiges.



I will need to see some semblance of the argument about how one man marrying another man or one woman marrying anotehr woman is debasing himself/herself before I have an idea of what to make of that remark.

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I'm not saying there aren't compelling value judgements to be made. I'm just asking if you want the government to make value judgements. I for one do.



I think we ask our government to do that all the time. We have, as a people, decided that the general legal age for adulthood in the US is 18. You can vote at 18 in any state, serve in the military, get married, own property, etc. Why 18? Because we've made that value judgement. It is iron-clad? No, we have seen instances where 18 year olds can behave like children. But we've drawn that distinction and we move on and deal with issues that arise from it on a case by case basis.

I see acceptable value in a same-sex union.

I don't see acceptable value in any kind of polygamist union.

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