The Future of Love. was Re: [extropy-chat] Gay marriage in Spain, a world of change, biology, last post, post, etc.

[Robert Lindauer]

> On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:27 PM, Al Brooks wrote:
>
>> Though I support all rights & full legal marriage for gays, it is 
>> good to see reasonable dissenting views. 
>
>
> Name one 'reasonable' dissenting view.
>

The only, I think, reasonable dissenting view would be the purely 
religious objection that Marriage is a Sacred and Holy thing ordained by 
God.

The only reasons to reject it are substantive ones for which there 
aren't any obviously definitive arguments (prove "God doesn't exist." or 
"God didn't ordain marriage" or "God doesn't care what people do", 
etc.).  It's sufficient for a dissenting view to not have any definitive 
arguments against it to call them reasonable.

However, I don't think such a position would necessarily carry over to 
having any consequences for a secular government and though a dilution 
of what is meant by "marriage" might occur (we'd just have to specify 
what -kind- of married two people are - church-married or 
not-church-married) this would really just be a continuance of the 
already evolved meaning of the term.

With suprisingly high regards for all,

robbie lindauer