Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03) 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.

04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

That took my breath away. I bow before you.

bummer. Ah, truth. Gulp.

I read this twice and what I found was an understanding of the issues with an attempt to look at the possible (as heinous an idea as this might be)concept of 'yes, we screwed things up, yes we need to not do that anymore BUT the "end" of the world AS WE KNOW IT might (MIGHT!!!) just happen anyway so perhaps its a good idea to start researching how best to survive (if we can..who knows..yet) in that new world'. I read some more about these fellows (This is a decently done interview I think ~~ http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/little-doe/) and found their ideas a bit radical(oooooh gosh) but forward moving nonetheless. This subject is a complicated one that touches most of pretty close, understandably. Yet our best hope for the future is going to have to include new ideas and approaches like these as well as the standards that we are so quickly coming to know...even if a little too late, eh? I was thinking that it sure takes a LOT of time to clean up a mess that can often take mere seconds to create (let alone hundreds of years)...ever drop a glass of wine? It happens in only a few seconds yet can take one many minutes to clean up properly. I use a sippy cup now ;) Just in case we cant reverse the damage enough lets begin to examine all the ideas out there without jumping to conclusions about the validity based solely on how uncomfortable they might make us feel. I this time of 'who really knows' I will choose to keep an open mind.