Yep. Don’t make us do your work for you.
If you don’t feel like typing it up, find one of your own threads and copy and paste your reasoning here.
I just find PDA disgusting, full stop, whatever the gender or orientation of the participants. I am a prude what can I say. Or I could still be harbouring trauma from that flight to Sydney sitting next to demonstratively affectionate couple.
Does that make you want to outlaw marriage?
Could it be that you’re just not used to it? In the past year I’ve spent a lot of time around gays, straights, bis, and people for whom gender identity is a meaningless concept. I’ve seen it all, and it’s really no big deal to me anymore. It’s all just people loving one another.
I’m with you, to a point. Not disgusting, but I tend to try and not look no matter who the couple are.
So make it “Even more uncomfortable than when at least one female is involved” …
Since the OP is " For opponents of SSM, how do you react to seeing images/video of **happy gay couples **being married? " enjoyment is a given.
Also is about their enjolyment at that moment, maybe Suzie will be an abusive bitch towards Hellen, but the OP wasn’t about that.
Sorry.
The thing is that I have no wish tio participate in any other “why do you think SSM is wrong” thread and if I explain that I, say, think SSM is wrong because peaches are not blue, then the very interestin gthread I wanting to be in turn into another thoroughly unproductive wreck.
Definitely could be. I don’t really try to explain it to myself – I know it’s not a fair reaction on my part, but since I don’t let it influence my opinion of their right to act as they will, it’s not really all that relevant. I pretty much see it the same as my complete aversion to watching people making fools of themselves on Reality TV… or being drunk (on foot!) in public. No skin off my nose, more power to them, but you can’t force me to watch it, either 
The difference of course being that nobody is seriously thinking of outlawing Reality shows 
ETA: I don’t think being Gay is the same as being an idiot. Being gay is completely OK. No score assigned to the various public displays
Honestly, I was really surprised that anyone who actually opposes gay marriage came forward in this thread. I expected that, as usually happens in this sort of thread on the Dope, it would just be full of gay right advocates speculating about what they think gay opponents would say and in the process showing their contempt/lack of understanding of their opponents. I give you credit for coming forward to give an honest reply even though I’m sure you knew it wouldn’t be popular. That makes the thread a lot more interesting.
I don’t know why Ají de Gallina is being so coy. I’ve tried searching his posts and all I see is that he’s a Catholic and that’s why he’s opposed to SSM. Because the Church says so is his only reason.
He (she?) already explained it. It would be derailing the thread that he (she?) really loves to explain his thinking on the answer he (she?) originally gave. Simple logic, see?
I don’t really see how, “It makes me uncomfortable.” makes the thread more interesting but we can try it your way for a while.
lavenderviolet, what aspect of the anti-marriage equality movement do I not understand as opposed to actively reject?
Oh, that’s understandable then. I encourage him not to have a same-sex marriage, and I pray he didn’t eat any meat on Fridays back in the day.
If you do that, I would not complain. After all, the three life landmarks are Birth, Marriage and Death and after marriage there is only death.
On a more seriously note:rolleyes:. Stop with the Reductio ad absurdum. I would probably oppose gay marriage even if I was all for PDA, my opinion regarding PDA is independent of any other opinion.
And that’s fine, but it still doesn’t answer the question of how is this harmful? It answers why do you think it is wrong?
But *who is being harmed, in what way, and by what means *are what I was hoping the poster would explain.
I have no problem with weddings. Been to bad, good and great ones. It’s marriage I can’t stand. Or really the whole legal stink cloud that surrounds it. I would happily wear a ring to show my love for my girlfriend. I am not going to join her corporation.
Thanks. it is a very nice OP, with , unfortunantley, not many antiSSM people participating.
It isn’t my only reason.
It’s a he.
The OP asks a very nice question and a narrowly focused one at that.
The SDMB is filled to the brim with good ol’ SSM threads.
Thanks, not that I needed to bwe reminded of my own beliefs, but still thanks.
The search button is your friend. I will assure you, however, that you will find all my reasons and arguments unconvincing at best and ridiculously bigoted at worst.
It is harmful - to them. It’s harmful because they continue to insist gay marriage is harmful when it isn’t, and when more and more people see that it isn’t. It’s harmful to them because their numbers are dwindling, the world is changing around them and they’re finding themselves more and more isolated in their antiquated belief.
That’s the harm that isn’t being described, for fairly obvious reasons.
It isn’t. you’s love for it to be true because it’s makes it easier to minimize your opponents.
It ain’t, though.
If anyone’s minimized you in this thread, it’s you.
Thank you.
Apparently answering the OP minimizes a thread.