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22.03.2014 15:50

#32320: - Re: Re: naisen ja miehen avioloiton puolesta

bill johnson October 8, 2013 at 8:40 pm -

If gay marriage has been used to force everyone in Massachusetts to accept gay marriage then why is Brian Camenker still able to oppose it?

Moving past that lets look at their so called negative consequences
1: schools teaching the reality that gay couples can get married, well of course they should, schools teaching reality is typically seen as a good thing.
2: The David parker story repeated for the billionth time, yep he was arrested because he threw a tantrum and refused to leave the school when he didn’t get his way. He was warned that if he didn’t leave he would be arrested and still he refused to leave.
3: Insurance, benefits recognition for married gay couples…wait isn’t this supposed to be a list of negative consequences?
4: Wedding businesses having to serve gay couples: yes businesses have to provide the services that they advertise without discriminating, the same thing applies to other categories like race or religion too.
5: State officials having to issue marriage licenses, family law lawyers having to learn about gay marriage: As it should be disagreeing with reality doesn’t mean that you get to ignore reality on the job and simply not do your job.
6: Politicians going to gay pride: again isn’t this supposed to be a list of negative consequences for the state?
7: adoption and foster care workers learning about gay couples, gay parents adopting: wait didn’t they originaly complain that the gays were redefining marriage by making it into something that wasn’t about children? Their own talking points suggest that this should be seen as a good thing.
8: public health: a bunch of lies and misrepresentations about health risks for the gay community while at the same time acting like risk prevention or healthcare geared towards the gay community is a bad thing.
9: gay protests of churches holding anti gay events, or of other anti gay events: the freedom to protest in a lawful manner is a freedom we enjoy in this country and none of the protests he mentioned were unlawful and thus no arrests were made. Repeating the word “intimidate” a billion times while talking about the protesters doesn’t take away their freedom of speech or assembly.
10: slippery slope: a list of things that all have only one thing in common: they are not a result of marriage equality nor do they need marriage equality in order to exist.

Notably absent from that list any affects on heterosexual marriages at all, and all the so called negative consequences that they do list are easily responded to and shown to not be negative consequences at all. In short marriage equality isn’t a bad thing just like we have been saying all along.