31 arguments agast gay marriage (and why they’re all wrong) | New Humanist

Contents:

• THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• THE #1 REASON I HATE GAY MARRIAGE
• BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
• 10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
• 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
• “IF YOU DON’T LIKE GAY MARRIAGE, DON’T GET GAY MARRIED!”
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT

THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW

If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the prent step sexual “eedom, ” what logil arguments n be ed to stop the next steps of ct, pedophilia, btialy, and other forms of unnatural behavr? The railroadg of same-sex “marriage” on the Amerin people mak creasgly clear what homosexual activist Pl Varnell wrote the Chigo Free Prs:"The gay movement, whether we acknowledge or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberatn movement, but a moral revolutn aimed at changg people's view of homosexualy. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian.

"Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013. The Huffgton Post’s Pl Rshenbh quickly wrote up a rponse, sayg that “The hard realy that Cardal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along wh every other church whether Orthodox, Prottant or Catholic has been horrifilly, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of s history.

If Rshenbh is right, then that means my parents are anti-gay, many of my relig iends (of all fahs) are anti-gay, the Pope is anti-gay, and—y, we’ll go here—first-century, Jewish theologian J is anti-gay.

THE #1 REASON I HATE GAY MARRIAGE

” I have no rervatns about my sexualy, so as far as the accatn of homophobia go: that gay ship has already sailed to Disneyland, wh a speedo-clad Tom Daley rved to the ’s “anti-gay” to qutn the arguments of marriage-equaly advot, and if the word “homophobic” is exhsted on me or on pole dissenters, then what should we ll someone who beats up gay people, or prefers not to hire them? Simply havg rervatns about gay marriage might be anti-gay marriage, but if the rervatns are articulated a rpectful way, I see no reason to dismiss the person holdg those rervatns as anti-gay people. When we hastily label our opposn wh terms like “anti-gay, ” we make an unwarranted leap om the first scriptn to the me, regnizg the distctn between opposg gay marriage and opposg gay people is a natural outgrowth of an ternal distctn: When to my inty, I take re not to rce myself to my sexual orientatn.

If ’s te that my gayns is not the most fundamental aspect of my inty as Brandon, then seems to me that someone uld iologilly disapprove of my sexual exprsn while simultaneoly lovg and affirmg my larger inty.

Maybe his distctn between Brandon and Gay Brandon is misguid, but isn’t necsarily malic, and that’s the Schenck, current chairman of the Evangelil Church Alliance, told me that while he believ that marriage is between one man and one woman, this belief is a “source of ternal nflict” and “nsternatn” for him. If he were disgted by gay people, or thought they should be imprisoned, or wanted to see the gayns beat out of them, then that might implite his human inty, part bee would suggt a troublg lack of passn.

BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE

From Sharia stat that mand the ath penalty to hard-le Christian natns that leave gay people to rot disease-fted prisons, the Earth remas a very bleak, very dark place for lns of non-straight people. The dumbt part is that both maland Cyps and Turkey self have no laws agast homosexualy, but thanks to a quirk of occupatn, gay people the North of the untry still have to fear for their safety.

10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE

Thanks to a 1987 law that legalized sex chang, parents of gay children routely force them to unrgo unwanted hormone treatment, chemil stratn, and sexual reassignment surgery to pe beg murred by the regime’s thugs. Some have jt not been exposed to the right arguments, and so I will monstrate here that each anti-gay marriage argument ultimately serv to opprs or imply the lser stat of the mory of which I am a part. The studi ced by actively homophobic anisatns like the Coaln for Marriage were fund by anti-gay anisatns, or have basic methodology flaws – for example, they would pare married straight upl wh un-wed gay upl, or they would take a person who may have had a sgle cur experience wh the same sex and fe them as exclively homosexual.

Arguments based on “tradnal fay” will always be sultg, not jt to the healthy, well-adjted children of gay upl, but to the children raised by sgle parents, step-parents, grandparents, godparents, foster parents, and siblgs. Type B: The Arguments That Don’t Even Bother to Hi Their Homophobia While we mt look closely to spot the homophobia herent some arguments agast gay marriage, wh others the prejudice is barely disguised at all.

31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)

Concln In an attempt to portray his mpaign to “prerve tradnal marriage” as reasoned and unprejudiced, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has argued that supporters of gay marriage shouldn’t rort to name-llg and accatns of bigotry. Given centuri of relig persecutn of gay people is entirely jtified to ll Lord Carey, the Coaln for Marriage, Christian Concern, and all other proactive opponents of gay marriage “bigots” and their arguments homophobic. The “abomatns” ment most likely was Kle sayg gay “marriage” is an abomatn unto the Lord, and not the on who pursue , but that distctn between the actn and the person who partak the actn is equently lost on the willfully aggrieved.

Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly.

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE GAY MARRIAGE, DON’T GET GAY MARRIED!”

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews. In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals. Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi.

AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals. The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet.

HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT

It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.