{"id":2251,"date":"2004-02-18T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/18\/why-gay-marriage-should-not-be-legalized\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:22:36","slug":"why-gay-marriage-should-not-be-legalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/18\/why-gay-marriage-should-not-be-legalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Why gay marriage should not be legalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11724,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/grove.ufl.edu\\\/~ggsa\\\/gaymarriage.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11725,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/community\\\/som_pos\\\/700115.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>[Update:]{.underline}<\/p>\n<p>When I originally found this piece, it was uncredited, and so I posted it as I found it. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/why_gay_marriag.html#c777597\" title=\"This list was made by Gator Gay Straight Alliance members...\">Suchita<\/a> for pointing me to the original source: the <a href=\"http:\/\/grove.ufl.edu\/~ggsa\/gaymarriage.html\" title=\"12 Reasons Same-Sex Marriage will Ruin Society\">Gator Gay Straight Alliance<\/a> at the Univeristy of Florida.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.<\/li>\n<li>Heterosexual marriages are valid becasue they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can&#8217;t legally get married because the world needs more children.<\/li>\n<li>Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.<\/li>\n<li>Straight marriage will be less meaningful if Gay marriage is allowed, since Britney Spears&#8217; 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.<\/li>\n<li>Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn&#8217;t changed at all; women are property, blacks can&#8217;t marry whites, and divorce is illegal.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire counrty. That&#8217;s why we have only one religion in America.<\/li>\n<li>Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Children can never suceed without a male and a female role model at home. That&#8217;s why single parents are forbidden to raise children.<\/li>\n<li>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&#8217;t adapted to things like cars or longer lifespans.<\/li>\n<li>Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a &#8220;seperate but equal&#8221; institution is always constitutional. Seperate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as seperate marriages for gays and lesbians will.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not the best I&#8217;ve ever read, but not terrible, and has its amusing moments. Its heart is in the right place, though.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/som_pos\/700115.html\" title=\"A friend told me to pass this along... and pass along I shall.\">Something Positive<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}