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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com September 23, 2011 02:17:55 PM ET
Which Slippery Slope Argument Wins in North Carolina?
By Lucas Grindley
PAUL STAM X390 (GRAB) | ADVOCATE.COM
Paul Stam
Dueling slippery slope arguments vied for the attention of North Carolina
voters during a recent debate about the state's proposed constitutional ban
on same-sex marriage.
"All persons are created equal but that doesn't imply, for example, that
three people can claim to be married," said Republican House Majority Leader
Paul Stam on Wednesday, according to video from the debate by ThinkProgress
. "Rep. Glazier never answered that question: how he would he tell three
people they couldn't be married once he told any two people they could?"
Stam further argued that "different things can be treated differently if the
things or people are in a very different relationship." But Democratic
Minority Whip Rick Glazier offered a correction, and then his own slippery
slope.
"Different things can be treated differently, but people ought to be treated
the same," he said. "People are not things."
He warned that if the government gets to decide that gays and lesbians aren'
t allowed to enter into marriages, it could also decide to stop them from
running for office, or from attending public universities at in-state
tuition rates, for example.
"How many people do we have to affect? How many rights have to be affected?"
he asked in alarm. "If the most traumatic, most important right in our
lives is going to be controlled with the government, what stops the
government from controlling and outcasting every other right in life? And
that is the slope you are starting us on, and it is one that the people of
North Carolina are going to have to stop." |
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