Fliegender wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 6:53 pm
Pedophelia is extremely marginal in most nations, even in very liberal places like the Netherlands. Actually, in strictly conservative nations such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, there is a form of socially acceptable pedophelia...another nail in the coffin of the idea that the Left accepts any weird sexuality while the Right is pure lily white...
There seems to be a fundamental difference in how liberals and conservatives categorize sexual behavior. For example, here's a list of behaviors:
homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, child marriage, polygamy, promiscuous heterosexuality, heterosexual marriage, same sex marriage
For social conservatives the metric seems to be a blend of "What does Jesus (or an OT cherry pick if it's unclear WJWD) say about this behavior?" and "Does this make me feel icky and uncomfortable?"
For most social conservatives homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, child marriage, polygamy, promiscuous heterosexuality, and same sex marriage all fail one of the two tests mentioned above and should therefore be railed against, strongly discouraged, and/or outright banned. The only fully acceptable sexual activity involves a man and a woman who are married to each other.
Since they're using the God says no/I feel icky metric to judge the behaviors many social conservatives lump all of those behaviors into the same category - sexual activity - and then assume that anyone who supports anything other than sex within a heterosexual marriage is looking to push us down the slippery slope and into the pit of depravity and doom. Consequently, comments like "First gay marriage, next bestility" make sense to those people.
For most liberals the metric is
consent. If the behaviors are consensual it's all good. If not, it can never be okay. A typical liberal would be fine with homosexuality, polygamy, promiscuity, heterosexual marriage, and same sex marriage, assuming that all of the participants were consenting adults. To be clear, by "fine with" I mean that the typical liberal generally takes a "you be you" approach to other people's' sexuality. That doesn't mean that they enthusiastically support any of those behaviors, that they engage in any or all of them, or that they're fine with their kids being promiscuous. For example, I'm fine with homosexuality, polygamy, promiscuity, heterosexual marriage, and same sex marriage, but I'm in a 100% monogamous, heterosexual relationship with my wife, and I would not be supportive of my daughters being sexually promiscuous. At all.
On the other hand, for the typical liberal bestiality, child marriage, and pedophilia are completely unacceptable because children and animals are incapable of giving informed consent or of being coequals in the relationship.
Sex with animals and kids is abusive and will never be okay. Never. Period.
So as you can see, the slippery slope that many social conservatives bring up when discussing things like marriage equality
is not real. If you worry that we might be fine with polygamy then your fears are justified - most of us don't much care about that. If you worry that liberals are trying to weaken society so that non consensual behavior becomes legal then you haven't been listening to us.
We will never, never, never support pedophilia or bestiality. Therefore, when social conservatives start howling about how "the left" supports bestiality and pedophilia we're shocked and offended.We do not, never have, and never will support those things, and they have absolutely nothing in common with consensual acts like same sex marriage.
Regarding cannibalism, I have no idea how anyone could possibly think that liberals support that, so I assume that's just a mindless smear from an insane person working his way toward a crazy-eyed ragegasm. It's a bizarre accusation. We don't support cannibalism.
PS - Regarding child marriage in the US (from Wikipedia):
Idaho
In February 2019, a bi-partisan anti-child marriage bill was voted down 39-28 by the Idaho House of Representatives. The bill would have made it illegal for anyone under 16 to get married, and for 16-17 year olds it would have required the consent of parents, a judge, and the minor themselves.
All those who opposed were Republicans. Idaho has the highest rate of child marriage in the United States.
Utah
On March 25th, 2019, the Governor of Utah, Republican Gary Herbert signed a law which raised the minimum marriage age from 15 to 16, with parental permission. The law also makes it illegal for a 16 or 17-year-old to marry someone who is more than 7 years older than them.[66] The law passed the Utah House of Representatives 55 to 6, with 14 abstentions. It was described as a bipartisan effort, with a majority of Republicans, and all Democrats voting in favour.
All abstentions and votes against were Republicans. KSL.com called it a "watered-down" version of a law proposed in 2018 by Democrat representative Angela Romero which would have raised the age from 15 to 18 with no exceptions.