The Best Argument against Gay Marriage: Glen Lavy's

The Best Argument against Gay marriage: Glen Lavy’s

“Gay marriage and the ‘slippery slope’ ”

Proponents to the legalization of same sex marriage came up with a lot of reasons as why gay marriage should be legal. The major ones are that not allowing same sex people to get married prevents them from getting legal benefits like hospital visitation, health insurance, family leave and more. They also argued that they are fighting for their rights the same way African Americans were fighting back in the day, and that gay marriage will not threaten our society. For centuries, religious and political leaders had protected the sanctity of marriage as the union of a person with a member of the opposite sex for procreation in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. Harvard law school graduate Glen Lavy, in his argument in the Los Angeles Times uses many great logical arguments showing that allowing gay marriage can put our society in a “slippery slope” situation. A situation where people involved in incestuous and polygamist relationship will want to be married.

As a senior counsel of a legal alliance of Christian attorneys the Alliance Defense Fund, Lavy could have argued his point in the religious way. He could have argued that the bible forbid same sex relationship also called sodomy, and that people who are involved or support it will burn in the eternal flames. Instead he appealed to the moral perspective of the society. In the beginning of his argument, Lavy strongly and logically asked, “With the California Supreme court’s eradication of the opposite-sex requirement for marriage, what is to prevent a future court from changing things like the binary nature of marriage or the prohibition on incestuous marriage...

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...stic partnership laws give the same legal rights as marriage but in a state level only. We might think that proponent to same sex marriage should try to change the civil unions and domestic partnership law from a law accepted in a state level to a law that is accepted in a national or international level. Is granting these so called rights worth risking leaving our descendent a world where sodomy, polygamy and incest are the norm? Can we even give them an escape as to modify the civil union law? These are the questions that Lavy wants us to ask ourselves. As he clearly explains, there is nothing to stop people in polygamist and incestuous relationship from using the legal blueprint of same sex marriage to advance their cause.

Works Cited

Lavy, Glen. "Gay Marriage and the 'Slippery Slope,' " Latimes.com. Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2008. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.