Almalieque wrote:
Proponents either say "It's a slippery slope" or something along the lines of those groups having to fight their own battles.
It is and they do. Did blacks gain their rights quickly, painlessly or effortlessly on the backs of women's rights or vice versa? Did ending the era of "No Irish Need Apply" suddenly mean equal job opportunities for African-Americans? Wasn't there a fifty year gap between allowing black men the right to vote and allowing women the right to vote? Can you name a couple groups where one just slid right in sharing equal rights without any work or struggle just by saying "Well,
they did it"?
If you can't, it's time to admit that each group will need to make their own independent case, struggle against status quo, fight to establish a majority in favor of giving them their rights and then go on to fight a government system pretty much designed around keeping things stable. All the previous evidence is against the "slippery slope!" argument.
Now, if you want to make the mature, fact based and less hysterical argument that [boogeyman group] may one day make the same arduous journey towards acceptance with all the struggle, strife and effort that goes with it, with unsure results and countless legal challenges (not only to stop them but issues with fitting their desired arrangement into the existing legal code), then go ahead. And you'll be making the same argument that you're currently throwing a fit about.