Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.
Note on today’s topics. This will be a slightly modified version of Wacky Wednesday. Rather than actually advocating these arguments, I will be presenting them with the goal of understanding the other side properly and then seeing how we can best respond to them.
~If two people love each other and want to commit to each other, they should be allowed to formalize their relationship for all of society.
~Publicly sanctioned relationships are stable and cultivate stability in the people who engage in them.
~It is unfair to deny gays the benefits of marriage such as medical visitation and authority, inheritance, health benefits from employment, tax breaks, and child-rearing safeguards.
~You can’t argue that homosexual relationships are unstable and promiscuous and then turn around and prevent them from forming stable monogamous ones.
~If you believe in civil unions, why would you want to keep gay relationships on a second-class citizen status?
~If children are involved, it is better for them to be in a two-parent home than a one-parent home.
~Many churches support the practice.
~This is no different than allowing people of different races to marry.
~Discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation is legally suspect.
~Gays want to be a part of legitimate society.
~Privacy is a long-settled Constitutional right.
~Given that you accept divorce, it’s disingenuous to say you think that gay marriage threatens the institution of marriage.
~Given that you accept contraception and place no legal obligation to reproduce or to even demonstrate fertility on straight marriages, it’s disingenuous to say that gay marriage is illegitimate for being no-procreative.
~If you accept civil unions, a reluctance to accept gay marriage makes no sense.
~How does Ellen and Rosie getting married even affect you?
~It’s an incredibly awkward thing to have a gay relationship without an official status, both for gays and for their friends and families.
~It’s kind.
~There are substantial benefits given to spouses both in the law and in the military.
Two Excellent Resources:
The Cultural Argument Against Gay Marriage by Randy Hicks
Men and Marriage (Must-read book, buy used for almost free) by George Gilder
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