Bigot Point:
"Gay marriage leads to bestiality."
Some creepy people have tried to link homosexuality with bestiality, when there is in reality no link between the two.
With homosexuality being naturally exhibited in about 10% of humanity, we can extrapolate that the number of homosexuals who exhibit Zoophilia
would be far less then the number of heterosexuals that do.
So if those arguing against allowing marriage equality (due to a fear of animal-human marriage) were serious they would be arguing for same sex marriage and trying to outlaw heterosexual marriage as heterosexuals would be more likely to suffer from zoophilia.
But they are not because its clear those saying this kind of hate speech are only interested in spreading homophobia.
Definitions:
Zoophilia: Sexual fixation on animals.
Bestiality: Sexual acts with animals.
For this post when i write animals i am referring to non-human animals.
But this argument is even worse as none of the marriage equality legislation has even hinted at allowing human-animal marriage. Of course none of the bills have even mentioned decriminalizing bestiality. The reason for this is that allowing same sex couples equal rights is a completely different issue.
Again this point is made to simply vilify gay people, to try to associate their desire to have equal rights with something that is seen as wrong by our society. As those seeking to deny marriage equality have to stretch this far , it shows that there really are no valid arguments against marriage equality.
I see nothing wrong with the legal definition of marriage being the union of two* consenting adults.
As soon as anyone tries to argue that we don't need the participants to be consenting (and adult) i (and i hope most Australians) would have a serious problem with that.
* The number of consenting adults allowed in any given marriage is a completely different point.
If the government ever tries to make human-animal marriage legal i will oppose that, as the animal can not consent. But there is no reason why we should oppose equal rights to gay people, lets address one issue at a time, lets not try to muddy the waters with fear-mongering nonsense.
If someone is trying to use this argument against marriage equality, you would be better served finding someone who is more honest and actually knows what they are talking about.
Remember hate speech and vilification of gays is homophobia and homophobia leads to hate crimes.
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