Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow ConquerClubbers, I
may have declared victory to soon for us defenders of gay marriage in this thread; however, given the tough obstacles which the opposition must overcome:
(1) Defend: majority rule that supports certain Christian beliefs is just
(2) Defend: morality is dependent only on God, thus morality is arbitrarily determined by God--and NOT by humans
(3) Defend: therefore, other forms of morality (e.g. libertarian, pro-individual liberty, pro-equality before the law, moral consequentialism, etc.) are invalid if they're contradictory to Christian God Morality.
(4) Overcome: different religions, which adhere to a similar God (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), and segments within those religions, have contradictory rules and policies for and against gays
(5) Overcome: conflicting religions use similar appeals to authority and circular reasoning to assert themselves as the true religion, so which religion (or segment of a religion) is the true one?
(6) Ignores: why oppose gay marriage if churches won't be forced to oversee gay marriages?
(7) Defend: cherry-picking of Bible, and arbitrary reasoning for justifying following X but not Y in the Bible
(8) Defend: why equality before the law should not be upheld--but discrimination should be upheld--against gay couples in regard to the state-granted benefits of marriage.
(9) Defend: the application of force by the state onto minority groups so that they must abide by particular Christian beliefs.
Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow ConquerClubbers, that list is so difficult, I completely forgot what I wanted to say... Yes! We're back! So, after seeing this list of obstacles faced by the opposition, and after
already seeing the opposition repeatedly fail to defend or overcome several of these obstacles, I couldn't fathom any logical means for them to overcome this list, thus
our victory was declared at an appropriate time. Their last retort was one of ad hominems and straw man fallacies, which shall be reasonably
rejected.
I alone could not have defended gay marriage, for this was OUR finest moment. With the help of my fellow CC'ers and from the knowledge gained from readings and from discussions with you fine people,
we have overcome the opposition, which so far is
correctly labelled as "bigoted--in a bad way." Furthermore, they should stop crying and get logical.
Give yourselves a round of applause, a pat on the back, and if you're not alone at the moment, outsource the patting-job to a loved one.
(@the opposition: if any of you care to logically address that list of obstacles, we eagerly await you.)