So far they have said:
It would degrade regular marriages!
If Brad Pitt’s carrying on and Bill Clinton porking Monica doesn’t degrade my marriage, neither will two lesbians getting married in Massachusetts. I can degrade my marriage and my wife can degrade my marriage. No one else can touch it. Make cheating on your spouse a federal crime, if marriage is so important.
If we let them marry, what’s to prevent people from marrying children, dogs, cars?
Laws, stupid. We managed to let Negroes vote without letting children, dogs and cars vote. Inter-racial marriage was illegal in California until 1951. Society didn’t crumble when that particular law evaporated.
But the Voice of the People has spoken! We passed a proposition banning it in our state!
Fine. Let’s pass some more, putting the Japanese-Americans back in the relocation camps and segregating the schools again. Civil rights for the majority was never an issue. A just society protects the minorities, too.
2006-07-18
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