Conservatives who oppose gay marriages often use the slippery slope argument, as in "the next thing you know men will be marrying dogs."
Until now I hadn't realized that there is indeed a slope. The slope will not lead to the perversions that scare-mongers on the right like to rant and rave about. Rather it will lead to a coerced morality (or what the right conceives of as morality but is more accurately described as faith).
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Bryce Christensen, a professor from Souther Utah University recently provided this frightening prospect about what the right is really after.
"If those initiatives are part of a broader effort to reaffirm lifetime fidelity in marriage, they're worthwhile," he said. "If they're isolated -- if we don't address cohabitation and casual divorce and deliberate childlessness -- then I think they're futile and will be brushed aside."
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How will they attempt to keep consenting adults from living together? (I can't help thinking about "Three's Company" here).
In what ways will they make divorce more difficult?
How can we tell the difference between "deliberate childlessness" and those couples who try unsuccessfully?
Will medical records need to be provided?
What exactly IS wrong with deciding not to have children?
This opens up a whole can of worms and, considering the shamelessness of the right, we should not hesitate to throw it back in their faces whenever the issue arises. We need to talk about their "real agenda" which is to legislate their faith.
Forgive me if this has already been posted. My father-in-law visits once a week and brings us our hometown paper so by the time I read this, the story was already a few days old.