Wednesday, November 3

Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!

In a stunningly ugly display, 11 states were asked to vote on the gay marriage question.Guess what? Yup, gay marriage was resoundingly rejected in every single state (even Oregon!) Guess why? Because you can't open up the rights of a minority to a vote decided by the majority. Minority rights are what free societies are supposed to be all about. Can you imagine if instead of abolishing slavery because it was wrong, Lincoln had just decided to go ahead and put it to a state by state vote? That's George Bush for you, folks, catering to prejudice and hatred by letting the overwhelmingly bigoted and stupid majority decide. Let's break down the arguments, shall we?

1) Gay Marriages undermine the institution of marriage.
how, by what means? Besides, I think the institution of marriage is being undermined quite nicely all on its own, don't you? What the hell is a 50% divorce rate if not the crumbling of the institution?

2) Marriage is for procreation.
Okay, by that logic anyone who is unable or unwilling to have children should immediately dissolve their marriage. Like, right now. Also, there should be no more adoptions, since these only encourage the infertiles to get married in the first place.

3) Gay Marriage makes being gay more socially acceptable.
I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but being gay isn't some sort of optional club membership. Social acceptability of something which is genetically inevitable is kind of moot. Gay people exist, have always existed (although many in the past had to hide it for fear of being beaten to death) and will always exist, just like black people, short people, etc. If you argued that a marriage between two short people was going to promote the social acceptability of being short people would never stop looking at you funny.

4) Gay marriage will hurt the country economically.
Marriage exists in modern society for one reason only: By legitimizing a relationship and giving that relationship certain benefits and tax savings the government can create a desire in more people to enter into the relationship. Why would the government want people to be married? So they can bring up kids, certainly (sonething gay couples do all the time with no special problems) and so that people are more productive at work, which social studies prove is a direct by-product of a stable relationship. Gay marriages help just as much as straight ones on these counts.

Leave these people alone and let them do whatever they want to do with each other. How is what they are doing hurting us?

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