
by Chris Bodenner
A reader writes:
I’m willing to concede the slippery slope argument if opponents of gay marriage concede that we are not at the beginning of the slippery slope, but in the middle. And furthermore that they would not reverse the slide back to the top. I know too many conservatives who oppose marriage equality, yet who are married to an Asian or who enjoy oral sex from time to time. The slippery slope argument is much less tenable if you argue that we are in the middle but, for some reason, in the exact right spot.
(Photo of Mildred and Richard Perry Loving, the plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case that banned miscegenation laws in the US.)