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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
That's the funny thing -- it wasn't just fringe loons like Phelps and his crowd. There were some mainstream folks warning about the downfall of the "traditional family" but here we are a year later and there hasn't been a single story about someone turnin' homuseckshull on account of them newfangled rules.
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Yeah--and I hear that exact argument all the time from my father in law, who's a member of a bunch of "defense of marriage" email groups. Why a retired person in his 60s cares so deeply about what gay people do is sort of beyond me.
But the argument is strange at its core--in essence, what it presumes is that secretly all straight people desire to be gay--and only the rules of society prevent them. If gay marriage were legal, straight people everywhere would jump up and say "this traditional marriage thing is boring. I want me a GAY marriage!" Weird idea.
I pointed that out to "dad"--he didn't much like that line of reasoning.
His rebuttal was something like "harrumph!"