The Preposterous Premise for Gay Marriage

Townhall.com ^ | 11/26/2008 | Frank Turek

[houston1]

none of which addresses the fact that the domestic partner law was not given equal weight to a marriage as people claim.

[fwdude]

none of which addresses the fact that the domestic partner law was not given equal weight to a marriage as people claim.

No one is implying such a thing, and, in fact, I hope that domestic partner laws DON'T make such partnerships the same as marriage in all but name.

The complaints by the homo-activists is that they are undefendibly vulnerable to contested legal arrangements - to listen to them, you'd think this a widespread, common problem, with partners being smacked down right and left. I'm saying that this is a lie and that a properly executed legal document should hold up in all by the most activist court. We shouldn't be ruled by the exceptions in a society.

[4rcane]

those who are trying to push for gay marriage, I find are more concerned that their definition of marriage be pushed than they are concerned about rights imho. I mean, alot of ppl dont have a problem with civil union, if two gay couples want to be together with full rights that married male/female have. So why are they against it?

It seem more of a pushing of ones opinion onto someone else than basic liberty

[Republic of Texas]

They don’t want to get married, they want to stick a thumb in the eye of Christians.

[fwdude]

No conservative should fall for the civil-union-as-a-concession-for-marriage trap. Civil unions, domestic partnerships, etc. are just a form of “marriage” by another name, and WILL be used as a wedge to gain the appellation of Marriage by the homo-leftists. Someone on this site once put it very succinctly: Why do we want to encourage bad, destructive behavior at all?

[fwdude]

I might add that many states, including my own State of Texas and most recently Florida, have included in their Constitutions language that explicitly forbids marriage-mimmicking arrangements for other than natural man-woman relationships for good reason. These states saw the logical conclusion of allowing homo-degenerates a place at the table of civilized institutions.