Pandagon notes how laughable some arguments against same-sex marriage are. I had a similar reaction. Ampersand, though, makes a persuasive case for the most outrageously stupid argument against same-sex marraige.
Jonathan Rauch: Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
Andrew Koppelman: The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law
Steven Greenberg: Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown: Straightforward : How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights
« More Brief Details | Main | Caucus Day »
The comments to this entry are closed.
The biggest problem with the ban on gay marraige is that it is one step closer to imposing a state religion on the American public. Atheists, and those religions that do not discriminate against homosexuals, such as Wicca, are losing their right to believe what they choose to believe.
Religion is a choice. Homosexuality is not. The discrimination of someone on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong, mainly because there is no argument against homosexuals that is not religious in nature. Legalizing discrimination is going to bring about another Civil Rights Dark Age, and forces upon all of us the belief system of the so-called "religious right." Those of us who believe homosexuals are people, too, are being criticized and labelled as "liberals." Keep the Oval Office out of my bedroom, and stop turning it into an evangelist's pulpit!
Posted by: Cindy Jo Little | November 12, 2004 at 08:13 PM