Young Conservatives Want Gays to Marry?

What’s wrong with shacking up? America became a de facto shack up society years ago. Marriage, we were told, was passé. Why bother about rings? Shacking up has advantages that marriage doesn’t. What if the guy or gal you’re “cohabiting” with turns out to be human? Ours being a maturity-arrested society, we need easier outs when our fantasies fail. Marriage is inhibiting and a heavy-lift – why, at times, it’s downright oppressive. It’s so adult and so complicated, it spoils the fun. If Jason or Amber don’t make the cut, on to the next bed partner. Fun.

Yet this curious current mania about gays marrying. The institution of marriage has been under a bigger assault than Fort Sumter since, at least, the Summer of Love. Though shacking up is the ticket for Matt and Sophia, it ain’t good enough for Ralph and Biff, or Jenny and Heather. Why, gays should do what the rest of us are told is yesterday’s news: marry – form, well, nontraditional traditional families. Be less cool and do the committed and settled suburbia thing. You know, Eight is Enough with two Tom Bradfords.

Now we have the Washington Times reporting that young conservatives want the GOP to get in step with Millennial sensibilities. Republicans need new “approaches to social issues and particularly to same-sex marriage, arguing that the GOP is chasing away younger voters who would be supporters but for the party’s exclusionary stances.”

Following that logic, then Republicans would be better served coming out for shacking up. Since there are many more straights than gays (perhaps 3% of the population is homosexual),

The bigger issue is are these “Republicans” willing to sacrifice the first amendment as they pander to gays because gays have shown their goal isn’t marrying its using the govt to punish dissent.

The media, and I include what passes for "conservative" media in this description are suckers for polls and social media.

Both sources of dubious "information" are highly susceptible to manipulation by a small group of zealots. They create an echo chamber of self referential and self reinforced bullsh!t.

I believe most conservatives see through this nonsense, however politicians are scared to death of it, and so we end up w/ Boehner & McConnell looking to appease the mainstream, which is nothing but manufactured false consensus.

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They are destroying the institution for other people even as they themselves don’t wish to honestly part take in it.

It is an ill-rational position born from Decades of pro LGBT indoctrination in our public schools under the guise of stopping ‘persecution’ even as it now turns to open persecution of anyone who holds a religious virtue, or just happens to point out biological facts as the foundation of any civilization.

When you go thou a public school that demands you think and treat theses people as if they are an oppressed minority, your going to get more than a few morons incapable or unwilling to think about the larger implications of destroying what little is left of marriage to placate their supposed desires.

In any event today’s younger generations have no idea what marriage is, or rather was. The unfortunate true is that is why they are so easily fooled into thinking its applicable to non-mating pairs.

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