AND THE SLIPPERY SLOPE same-sex marriage

The Slippery Slope Argument If marriage is redefined to include two men in love, on what possible principled grounds can it be denied to three men in love?... Do gay-marriage advocates propose to permit the marriage of, say, two brothers, or of a mother and her (adult) daughter? If not, by what reason of logic or morality? Charles Krauthammer “When John and Jim Say, I Do”

The Slippery Slope Argument If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything… man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. Senator Rick Santorum

The Slippery Slope Argument 1. If same-sex marriage should be legalized, then PIB marriages should be legalized. 2. PIB marriages shouldn’t be legalized. 3. [So] Same-sex marriages shouldn’t be legalized.

The Slippery Slope Argument The polygamy argument rests, I think, on a couple of assumptions. The first is that polygamous impulses are morally and psychologically equivalent to homosexual impulses, since both are diversions from the healthy heterosexual norm… But…homosexuality…occupies a deeper level of human consciousness that a polygamous impulse…it is a profound element of human identity. Andrew Sullivan “Three’s a Crowd”

The Slippery Slope Argument The hidden assumption of the argument which brackets gay marriage with polygamous or incestuous marriage is that homosexuals want the right to marry anyone they fall for. But, of course, heterosexuals are currently denied that right. They cannot marry their immediate family or all their sex partners. What homosexuals are asking for is the right to marry, not anybody they love, but somebody they love, which is not at all the same thing. Jonathan Rauch “Marrying Somebody”

The Slippery Slope Argument 1. If same-sex marriage should be legalized, then PIB marriages should be legalized. 2. PIB marriages shouldn’t be legalized. 3. [So] Same-sex marriages shouldn’t be legalized.

The Slippery Slope Argument 1. If some same-sex marriage should be legalized, then some PIB marriages should be legalized. 2. No PIB marriages should be legalized. 3. [So] No same-sex marriages should be legalized.