{"id":3595,"date":"2012-05-11T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2014-05-22T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:55:47","slug":"changing-the-definition-of-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"Changing the definition of bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not think arguments against same-sex marriage could get any worse, but alas, I was wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is Pastor Aaron Fruh, of Knollwood Church in Mobile, Ala, writing (inexplicably) in the Chicago Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If I were counseling a married couple who were about to break the<\/strong>ir marriage vows by agreeing to an open marriage, I would tell them that adultery is a bad idea. Adultery erodes marital trust, splinters the lives of the outside partners, results often in divorce and shatters the lives of children in the families involved.<\/p>\n

In the same way, I can say to a teenager who is considering having premarital sex <\/strong>that it is a bad idea. The emotional scars that sex before marriage and abortion leave cannot be measured.<\/p>\n

In the same way, it is not discriminatory hate speech to say to gay couples that same-sex marriage is a bad idea. Here’s why: Proponents of same-sex marriage want to change the meaning of marriage. To them, marriage is any romantic relationship between people. They believe the state should regulate and recognize same-sex marriage because it has an interest in stable romantic partnerships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again with the pseudo-Platonism on the meaning of concepts.\u00c2\u00a0 Pastor Fruh alleges that he’s not a homophobe or a bigot for denying, without good reason,\u00c2\u00a0gay people rights he enjoys.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s the very definition of those terms–“homophobe” and “bigot.” Why does he want to change the meaning of those terms?<\/p>\n

In all seriousness, someone ought to have pointed out that the Pastor’s argument against gay marriage uses as premises the consequences of non-marital<\/strong> unions.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagine that a proponent of same-sex marriage would likely agree with Pastor Fruh.\u00c2\u00a0 “Yes, non-marital romantic relations of type x or y are inadvisable and bad–that’s why I want to get married.”\u00c2\u00a0 But this person’s desire to get married will be frustrated, won’t it, by Pastor Fruh’s bigotry.<\/p>\n

The rest of the article is the usual compendium of slippery slopes (why not polygamy?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know why not, ask King F—ing David or Abraham), bogus empirical claims, insinuations that same-sex marriage will replace “traditional” marriage and thus doom our society which no longer merit refutation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did not think arguments against same-sex marriage could get any worse, but alas, I was wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is Pastor Aaron Fruh, of Knollwood Church in Mobile, Ala, writing (inexplicably) in the Chicago Tribune: If I were counseling a married couple who were about to break their marriage vows by agreeing to an open marriage, … Continue reading Changing the definition of bigotry<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1386,773,1388,1387,1145],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aaron-fruh","tag-bigotry","tag-knollwood-church","tag-pastor-aaron-fruh","tag-traditional-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}