Here Follows the Most Ridiculous Argument Against Marriage Equality I’ve Ever Seen.
I don’t say that lightly. I’ve seen and heard plenty of outrageous claims made about same-sex marriage, how it will allegedly destroy the very fabric of society and why people must “protect traditional marriage”. But this one, from a so-called libertarian, takes the cake. It makes many of the RRRW claims seem almost rational.
1. It is a power grab by the government. Now only the government has the right to say what a marriage is…. and courts at that. Previously, a marriage was a marriage no matter what a government said.
Really? You mean previously you could get a legal marriage without any assistance from the government? No marriage license or other government issued paperwork of any kind? And just now the government stepped in and decided how to define what marriage would be and who would be eligible for it? I’d love to hear about that.
2. It contracts the definition of marriage. It doesn’t’ expand it. Gay couples are not “married.” The court has simply denied marriage to all. We can now only become “Party A” and “Party B.”
Oy vey, not another person so obsessed with semantics that they think the substitution of Party A and Party B for Husband and Wife invalidates a Marriage License. Newsflash: People are still married in California, but while some of them are Husband and Wife, some of them are Wife and Wife, and some are Husband and Husband. I am married. Deny it all you want but it changes nothing.
3. The court has ordered everyone to deceive his neighbor by using the word “marriage” in a manner consistent of the joining of a man and a woman when now it doesn’t mean even that.
My marriage license and the law say otherwise.
4. The California laws violate basic civil liberties. These civil liberties (the right to marry for instance) should be precious to all Americans, but certainly to true Republicans.
Actually it just recently stopped violating basic civil liberties. Marriage equality is a civil liberty. Voting yes on Proposition 8 will allow it to do so once again.
5. The California law is so bad it puts the issue into the hands of federal courts.
I haven’t heard any threats from the federal government to step in and take action. Given that they’ve done nothing to Massachusetts over the course of the past four years I don’t imagine they’ll be taking any action here.
What’s truly sick is that this individual is attempting, with this bizarre argument, to convince Log Cabin Republicans to vote for Proposition 8. Fortunately it appears nobody is buying it.
