Marriage is love.

 

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

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

3) 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.

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

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) 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.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans...
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Re-post this if you believe in legalizing gay marriage.  Happy Valentine's Day.  Marriage is love.

Comments

[Ruth]

Happy Valentine's Day (belated but heartfelt) to you and Lisa from me and Lise! It was six years ago on the 14th we trotted out and got our Domestic Partnership in CA notarized to file with the State o' California.
That was the first of our many anniversaries - we figure between this spring's anniversary of the East Coast Wedding Party (June 2, 2001) and summer's Mass Celebration of Domestic Partners at Pride in SF a few weeks later, the relationship will be old enough to drink. um. A rollicking good start any way you count it!

[niki]

Doña,
I will hope right over and post it. Hope you and Lisa had a great day!

[kristy]

Donna,

I read your blog all the time. Now that England has legalized Gay marriage perhaps we have some hope that Americans will wake up and recognize that if you are straight or gay, Love is really a beautiful gift and if you are lucky enough to have found true love we should all be allowed to express it.

I will be posting this on my simple living blog (I am sure Singapore, where I live now, will be even further behind the US on this.)

Peace.