I suspect that for many people who are against same-sex marriage, it really comes down to the "yuck factor". In this culture, there's a lot of shaming and slurs around being queer, a lot of presenting it as something nasty. There is also a lot of shaming around body issues and gender issues that affect what sex acts many people do or do not find "yucky" (as a separate issue from orientation).
Consequently, any cogent arguments that side may attempt to make genearally are merely attempts to justify why they have a gut-level reaction of disgust when contemplating same-sex relationships. Yes, there is the religious angle, but I suspect that this angle has received the emphasis and endorsement of so many for so long (and not fallen away into neglect as other precepts have)due to the yuck factor.
I recently read an interesting article that I can't remember the location of -- I think it was in Salon, they were interviewing this guy who wrote a book about disgust, as an experience and a force in human societies. They noted that people who identify as socially "conservative" tend to let the gut-level reaction of disgust guide them in determining what they believe to be Morally Wrong. In contrast, they found that people who identified as socially "liberal" tended NOT to use this as their sole guide, but to step back from it at least in part and assess its moral rightness or wrongness based on other factors also. (And no, I don't remember where the citation for this study came from, but I believe Google would turn it up, it was pretty recent.)
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Date: 2008-11-05 09:24 pm (UTC)Consequently, any cogent arguments that side may attempt to make genearally are merely attempts to justify why they have a gut-level reaction of disgust when contemplating same-sex relationships. Yes, there is the religious angle, but I suspect that this angle has received the emphasis and endorsement of so many for so long (and not fallen away into neglect as other precepts have)due to the yuck factor.
I recently read an interesting article that I can't remember the location of -- I think it was in Salon, they were interviewing this guy who wrote a book about disgust, as an experience and a force in human societies. They noted that people who identify as socially "conservative" tend to let the gut-level reaction of disgust guide them in determining what they believe to be Morally Wrong. In contrast, they found that people who identified as socially "liberal" tended NOT to use this as their sole guide, but to step back from it at least in part and assess its moral rightness or wrongness based on other factors also. (And no, I don't remember where the citation for this study came from, but I believe Google would turn it up, it was pretty recent.)