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I still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. Many people in the world still believe as I do. I am not ashamed or embarrassed by this. (See here, e.g.)
I have encountered no reason to believe otherwise. (Ad populum reasoning [opinion polls] are irrelevant in the establishment of true beliefs. Also, I'm not a utilitarian in ethics, which holds that right and wrong do not exist. I find Americans to be unexmined quasi-utilitarians, until they run into an objective moral value, in which case they switch to Kantian ethics, and sometimes even irreligious divine command theory.)
In this, I sometimes feel like the man in this quote from G. K. Chesterton.
A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre,
because he does not change with the world;
he has climbed into a fixed star
and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope.
Millions of mild black coated men call themselves
sane and sensible merely because
they always catch the fashionable insanity,
because they are hurried into madness after madness
by the maelstrom of the world.
If you disagree with me, does this mean I hate you? Of course not. (See here.)
If I love you, does this mean I affirm all your beliefs? Of course not. (See here.)
Is civil discourse on the meaning of marriage possible? Of course. (See here.)
To enter the discussion here are some resources I am familiar with. (Note how cordial Maggie Gallagher and John Corvino are towards each other.)
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