What is the difference between gay rights and trans rights? Why do matter?
Contents:
- BEWARE OF THE GAY MARRIAGE SLIPPERY SLOPE
- THE SUPREME COURT’S RULG ON REFG GAY BS
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BEWARE OF THE GAY MARRIAGE SLIPPERY SLOPE
People agast gay marriage sometim e the "slippery slope" argument, that basilly says that if we legalize gay marriage, that will lead to a whole bunch of other thgs such as polygamy, polyandry, polygyny and other "poly" varieti. Gay marriage will lead to polygamy, btialy, murr and God forbid, Cat-dogs! Substute the word "slavery" wh "gay marriage" and is exactly what several proment relig lears and policians are sayg today.
Gay men will marry gay men. Straight people will not turn gay. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTlettersImageLorie Smh, center, said her Christian fah required her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Moneymaker/Getty ImagTo the Edor:Re “Web Digner Ws Right to Turn Away Gay People” (ont page, July 1):Given the Supreme Court’s track rerd throughout the past year — cludg, most notably, the guttg of affirmative actn and feral abortn protectns — I shouldn’t have been surprised when, along iologil l, led favor of a web signer who would refe a same-sex uple seekg her servic.
The day when signs readg “Gays not served here” bee a realy. There are those wh scerely held relig beliefs who ce scriptural referenc that support segregatn of the rac, as do those who jtify their anti-gay bias this manner. It would be sweet jtice if the Thomas were nied service when they try to orr an anniversary other words, this is a slippery BudzskiEvanston, the Edor:Re “Christians and Drag Queens Both Defend the First Amendment, ” by David French (lumn, July 1):I agree that eedom of speech clus both lettg someone give hateful speech (if not cg vlence) and also not forcg someone to speak agast their said, how is a web signer who creat a weddg page for a gay uple seen as beg forced to speak agast her nscience?
THE SUPREME COURT’S RULG ON REFG GAY BS
The speech is the gay uple’s, not hers.
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The first of the rponse says related to gay marriage and to what extent may have “stroyed” tradnal notns of marriage. In this one, I’ll clarify why I believe the genr movement “ni realy” while the gay rights movement do not, rponse to some rear objectns, and also share some thoughts about how one uld have led to the other. ~Sarah An creasgly mon ia I enunter among liberals who are alarmed by the genr inty movement is a kd of hdsight regret—a feelg that the “slippery slope” argument wield by those opposed to gay rights a ago has turned out to be more te than they would like.
For example: if someone had argued that gay marriage would evably lead to, say, marriage between animals and humans, I would reply that they are wrong not bee gay marriage do not move down some slope, but bee do not go down that one.