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I've found that if you speak as if with authority on nearly any topic, most people will believe you. This frightens me.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

tongue planted firmly in cheek....

Borrowed from qu0thraven




Some thoughts on gay marriage....



1. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.

2. Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can't legally get married because the world needs more children.

3. Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

4. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if Gay marriage is allowed, since Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.

5. Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are property, blacks can't marry whites, and divorce is illegal.

6. Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.

7. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country That's why we have only one religion in America.

8. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

9. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

10. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why single parents are forbidden to raise children.

11. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven't adapted to things like cars or longer lifespans.

12. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a "separate but equal" institution is always constitutional. Separate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as separate marriages for gays and lesbians will.

4 Comments:

Blogger Mommyleek said...

Heh, good list here. I've never understood what the big deal is about gay marriage. Just let 'em marry each other already. It'd be interesting to do a follow-up on them in ten years or so and see if their divorce rate was similar to the hetero divorce rate. I'd suspect that it'd be lower, since they'd be less likely to take the priveledge of marriage lightly.

Just a thought. Sorry to get all serious on your ha-ha.

5:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Completely irrelevant to this post but I thought of you when I read it.

http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Seven_of_Pentacles.html

7:57 AM  
Blogger Laura said...

hey Ang -- you know me, diguise seriousness as a ha-ha anyway. Yeah, I really just don't get why it's a big deal legally -- the best arguments I've seen against it are religious.

Keep religion out of my government and government out of my religion. *sigh*

12:09 PM  
Blogger Laura said...

ohhh Sair, so pretty --

I really love that. Thanks for the though, too. What is that site?

12:14 PM  

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