Today, I had the pleasure of watching a debate held by the Fourth years. The topic being “Should same-sex marriages be accepted in the Philippines?”
I really am on the side of allowing this and I offered to share some arguments with Josh, one of the seniors who was assigned to the Cons side of the debate, so he’d have some idea on how to counter it. View his post here.
Anyhow, I posted this really long comment to answer all the things he wanted to point out. Here it is:
Here are the possible arguments against what you said respectively, just see if you could defend against them in the debate:
So many other things that humans created have gone against the natural orders of things. Humans have adapted to the ever changing modern technology and different human rights have also changed throughout the years, and all if not most have been a great achievement for mankind. Wouldn’t the acceptance of homosexuals change everyone’s view for the better as well? To be more open minded to different ideas? Changes are NORMAL after all.
How can’t homosexual marriage promote the concept of family? Family is a unit in which love is expressed to each member by each other. Is not crossing the line of social acceptance to simply love another person a good example enough to define the term “love”?
-.- The husband and wife thing isn’t a good argument to begin with Josh
Well, if homosexual marriage were accepted, won’t that mean a few changes in the definition of “family” anyway? So what if someone has 2 fathers, if they know what’s best for you, they will love you and treasure you just the same.
Finally, marriage is a commitment bound by the emotion of love. Love is present regardless of what the person may look like, what their age may be (but being a pedophile is just wrong -.-) as well as their sex. If you cannot find another person like the person you love or cannot picture yourself with anyone other than that person, wouldn’t it be unfair to address this other human being’s request of being able to love. If they respect the sanctity of marriage than it cannot be wrong. They are bound by their faith and isn’t that what the typical Christian couple may want? They may feel discriminated enough by the text in their holy book, but cannot help it. Love is just love.
here you go
I realized how much longer my comment was to his post, and I apologized quickly for may have possibly offending him at some point because of it. Needless to say, he was a good sport about it.
You can check out his post in order to understand it completely. The comment I wrote wasn’t well-written and I apologize for that. I was the most I could say without sounding way too formal for anyone’s taste.
Things I want to point out by the way:
- I just wanted to wish the Second years luck on their play tomorrow. Lady Aoi was really hard, I hope they pull it off better than we did.
- Happy Birthday Shane!
- It’s Sir Glen’s birthday tomorrow, he just pretends like he can’t hear you when you ask him about it -.-
- I need to work on my watercolor, I painted something today and it wasn’t that good
- I’m not sure if I should post the Yggdrasil logo just yet
- Prop 8=HATE; Prop HATE causes pain
