Quote:
Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kenyth:
quote:
Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kenyth:
Sure I can! For one, homosexuals are not sterile! How's that?
|
That's a non-sequiter, that's how that is. As rebuttal, I offer evidence that ice cream trucks go slower than other automobiles.
Connect the dots as to how your statement relates.
|
You started off comparing homosexual relationships to those with vasectomies or who were otherwise sterile. I was just making the point that homosexuals are generally not sterile any more than the regular populus. [/QUOTE]I hate to get sidetracked, but I still don't think you've added anything to your argument. You said (paraphrased) "marriage is based on procreation, and gays by definition won't procreate." I retorted "neither will sterile people, so based on your logic they can't get married." A direct rebuttal. You replied "gays arent' sterile." Well, that may be true, but it does not refute or support anything stated so far. So, homosexuals usually aren't sterile (any more than anyone else) -- how does that support your argument or defeat mine?? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] I *get* the truth of your statement -- "connect the dots" means follow through on the analysis/applicability portion of it. [/QUOT
Well, if a sterile relationship and a homosexual relationship equate, then by all means get a vasectomy and have a heterosexual relationship instead of being homosexual and the problem is solved, right? Your paraphrasing equals oversimplification in this case. Which I've just done also.
You're equating a sterile person with a homosexual. That's not the point. Sterile or not, they're following the natural way things are meant to be. If they weren't sterile, they could produce offspring. They are built to do it, even if they are malfunctioning. Even if a homosexual is not sterile, they STILL can't produce offspring in their relationship. That makes it unnatural and different. Sterile people who marry are still aspiring to the way things are supposed to be. The point is that homosexual couples are not. I use the point of the ability to procreate as proof of it being the way things are supposed to be.
[ 08-08-2003, 03:39 PM: Message edited by: Sir Kenyth ]