Your hot button issue

[MissCatholic]

Child killers.
People who give religion a bad name.
Education

[Emsworth]

Bill of Rights

[MODU]

Hmmm . . . mine would be:
1) Establish English as the national language
2) National ID card/National voting reform
3) Repealling Supreme Court ruling and make Flag burning illegal once again
4) Total tax reform
5) Abolishment of half the welfare waste systems
6) National fuel cell development program (ala Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge)

[MissCatholic]

Hmmm . . . mine would be:
1) Establish English as the national language
2) National ID card/National voting reform
3) Repealling Supreme Court ruling and make Flag burning illegal once again
4) Total tax reform
5) Abolishment of half the welfare waste systems
6) National fuel cell development program (ala Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge)

I have never seen anyone burn an American flag in America?

[MODU]

I have never seen anyone burn an American flag in America?

I've never seen someone have sex with an animal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[MissCatholic]

I have never seen anyone burn an American flag in America?

I've never seen someone have sex with an animal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

I could never imagine an American burning a flag. Even anarchists wouldn't do it

[Gustaf]

You don't think age differences can be relative? You know, people can be very different within the same age group. I have a lot more in common with a lot of people in different age groups than my own than with many people in my own.

I mean to make no implications about maturity, only physical characteristics.  Many children are more mature than some adults; I oppose marriages with a mature child and mature adult because of the physical differences in those two age groups.

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Coming from a state where there is still sizable opposition to interracial marriage, I realize the similarity between the arguments, but I do not find any scientific or ethical reason to prohibit people of different "races" to marry.  There are, however, sometimes cultural barriers that should be worked out in the pre marital stages of a relationship.  But on the basis of race alone, there is no moral opposition to it that is sound.  Allowing interracial marriages is a step in the direction of equality, not a step backwards.

The scientific consensus not too long ago was that there were decisive racial differences. My point is that a line of argument that would historically placed a person on the wrong side should be treated with some suspicion.

Secondly, do you base your opposition to marriages with big age gaps on the idea that people with different physical constitutions cannot have a good marriage?

[MODU]

I could never imagine an American burning a flag. Even anarchists wouldn't do it

Unfortunately they have and do, which is why we ended up having the Supreme Court ruling after a communist-leaning protestor went down the streets of Dallas vandalizing whatever he could get his hands on, including the flag.  His lawyer claimed it was a protected form of speech, and the Supreme Court issued a split ruling, contradicting the laws of 48 states and the District of Columbia at the time which had it listed as a criminal offense.