Homosexuality and the Destruction of Marriage…Seriously?

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source: dailyrecord.co.uk

So according to a lot of theists allowing gay people to get married will lead to the devaluation of marriage, apparently it will also open up a slippery slope to such acts as bestial marriage…seriously theists? Do you actually believe this shit or do you maybe just have another agenda?

I can’t believe anyone actually takes this shit seriously (well maybe a few nut-jobs but I reckon on the whole it’s probably a masquerade), and I’m just going to take a minute to explain why both these ideas are bullshit:

Firstly, someone else getting married does not impact your marriage or concept of it, plenty of “sinners” over the years have been married; Ted Bundy was a married man, many atheists are married, yet this hasn’t devalued your concept of marriage. I can already hear the cries “but marriage is between a one woman and one man”, how about one man and a child? How about one man and many women? These forms of marriage already exist around the world and they haven’t jeopardized the sanctity of marriage yet, so why would marriage between two women or two men be any different? The obvious answer is that it wouldn’t.

Secondly is this notion that allowing gay marriage will lead to people marrying animals and inanimate objects, if you haven’t figured out why this is stupid yet then there is something wrong with you; firstly, having sexual relations with an animal is a criminal offence, anyone who came forward wanting to marry their pet donkey would be locked up for it. Secondly, and more pragmatically, an animal cannot give consent and therefore would be incapable of getting married. In case you haven’t figured it out yet…IT’S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!

So if the arguments as to why gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed are obviously falsifiable, what is the argument all about? I believe the answer is far more sinister; many theists hate homosexuality and due to this hate they believe that homosexuals should be treated as inferior, and therefore not allowed the same status; it’s all about keeping those different from themselves in an inferior “out-group”. I would like to point out that this is my personal opinion and that this may very well not be the case. That being said, it seems to fit with what we are constantly seeing around us.

I have a message to the theists out their: you’re afraid of the wrong group. Do you want to know who will lead to the devaluation of marriage? People like me (not me personally, I do not claim to have that significant an influence in the world); straight people who see marriage as an outdated, archaic system. I would like to imagine that in years to come (obviously not in my lifetime) the system of religious marriage will disappear, probably replaced with a simple legal form of marriage. If this were to happen then the whole argument would be dead, people would not be treated as lesser because they don’t conform to an “in-group’s” standards, marriage would be reserved for love alone, not religious bigotry.