The Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales have raised hefty objections to a government’s proposal to introduce the possibility for gays to get married. According to the Churches, same-sex marriage leads to a fundamental change of values regarding a hundreds of years existing social institute. As for the government, they reassure that the Churches will not have to conduct themselves single-sex marriages. Ben Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall, is irate about the attitude of the Church of England. He claims that three in five people in Britain are positive about gay marriage, and therefore have no right to oppose in such a ‘melodramatic scaremongering’ way.
I do not understand the point of view of the Churches. Their main concern should be Christian charity and as a consequence they ought to be glad to seal any bond of love between human beings, regardless their sexes. A few months ago, I spoke to a religious person about this issue and was surprised to hear her say that she was worried because of the slippery slope: once you allow same-sex marriage, many others will follow and there will be no more offspring at the end...I think this is a real fallacy!
PM under pressure over gay marriage / The Indenpendent 12 June 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pm-under-pressure-over-gay-marriage-7844369.html
I feel the same as you do. The slippery slope argument is ridiculous. All the people in the world will not become gay when gay marriage is allowed. I don’t even believe that is the real reason for religious people to be against gay marriage. My guess is that they are afraid of the unknown.
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