If anything, I would argue that being religious is more likely to lead to peadophilia than being gay, since we all know how much Catholics like their choir boys, yes I fucking went there.
Na lethn, if we look in the time machine back to Roman and Greek history I'm pretty sure all the Roman teachers and Greek philosophers took the cake and ate it many times before religion got into that trend.
Religion just set them straight ha-ha
By your logic, the states have no right to impose any law that a particular group finds unfavorable. So rich people could say they aren't equal under the law because they pay higher taxes. Should pedophiles have the right to marry a child? (I am not comparing pedophiles to homosexuals, I am only comparing the legal logic). By your logic yes! If I replace "a man not being allowed to marry a man demonstrates that he is not equal with straight men under the law" with "a man not being allowed to marry a child demonstrates that he is not equal with other men under the law," the logic should extend, no?
As for the world descending into chaos, looking at middle east hatred of the west and why they will not ever become like the west is because one of the core tenets and issues of our generation is being challenged here (homosexuality) otherwise we wouldn't be having so many flamewars over it and polarization on both camps, the argument that "no one else gives a fuck save for a few homophobic cunts and it's about time they got over it " is simply untrue it's just that very strong reactionary elements set out to destroy any opposition in the gay camp to quiet any dispute, baker gets prosecuted for wedding cakes, politicians get put under a torch for gay marriage views, heck even traditional hillbillys on tv getting scolded for what was a traditional value, if anything persecution begets persecution.
It's only in the last 10 years that we have seen that attitude changing a little so its debatable at least, but far from a get over it at this point in time.
Still in a fallacy argument to your other point if we let pedophilia become legal, we arguably would see the same result as we have historically society operating normally like it is is now of course there is quantifiable evidence of that, since we only need to look back 100 years or so to see it as a common enough occurrence that was not penalized.
It's only recently in human history that we started having large debates over that particular issue, historically England started the age of consent at age 12 in 1875 and we only have seen that raised to 15-18 very recently by a historical measure.
In fact there have even been arguments for it to go down good old wiki
According to sociologist Matthew Waites, in the 1970s, a number of grass-roots political actions took place in Britain in favor of lowering the age of consent, which he described as based on claims of children's rights, gay liberation, or as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases.
Even the Gay community got in on this reform
In May 1974, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality suggested a basic age of consent of 16, but 12 "in cases where a defendant could prove the existence of meaningful consent".[17][18] In September 1974, the Sexual Law Reform Society proposed lowering the age of consent to 14, with the requirement that below the age of 18 the burden of proof that consent for sexual activities between the parties existed would be the responsibility of the older participant.
Waites, Matthew. The Age of Consent – Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (2005), pp 122, 132–133, 220).
WAITES, Matthew (2005, op.cit., p.132).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform
This isn't a case of some particular group being bitchy for no reason, this is as global wide conspiracy by all religions to oppress homosexuals, it's just a fucking contract. Sure, a church can go ahead and declare that marriage between homosexuals isn't legitimate all they like, but they can't go around telling state and government what to do.
If anything gay rights has the long history of a value we all agreed upon as something that has been oppressed as you pointed out.
By the same token it's the same gay rights community that is telling the state and government what to do in regards to this issue so its a double sided play.
Apologies for nitpicking looked like a fun debate there anyways it's one of the more interesting issues of our time, we will see how it turns out traditionally major societal changes are due to wars, of course I doubt one issue is enough to ignite a whole flame its usually a conflation of them.
WWI : Had the artists , Wagner German Identity, Development of French Identity, and Superiority over the Russians
WWII: Sort of related
WWIII: Could be a mixture of similar flashpoints like this one either way we live in it so we will see someday for ourselves what happens.
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Hmm small world reading the communist platform I think Razick Lethn Butter seem to all fit in here weird
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/about-the-cpgb/draft-programme/3.-immediate-demands_
