Is Marriage Valid?

[ebia]

No.

This isn't about whether people can't or shouldn't think a certain type of marriage or lifestyle follows an objective truth. This is about whether the law should impose what one person believes to be objective truths on other people. The failure to understand the difference is what makes religious people feel that things are being shoved down their throats when the government dares to validate the objective views of a greater number of people. I could support same-sex marriage without thinking that it's morally correct, for example (and many people do).

Law hasn't been mentioned once in this thread of the conversation. But law depends on what one sees as the objective truth.

 

[Cearbhall]

Law hasn't been mentioned once in this thread of the conversation.

I tend to try to move back toward the original purpose of the thread.

But law depends on what one sees as the objective truth.

Not for everyone. You can view same-sex marriage as objectively wrong from a religious standpoint and still support its legalization.

 

[filoco]

That is why you should think about it over and over again before getting married.

 

[Cearbhall]

That is why you should think about it over and over again before getting married.

Of course you should, but no amount of thinking is going to prevent all of the more concrete reasons that people get divorced.