Someone’s finally given a reason for opposing same-sex marriage that actually makes sense to me. From a comment on my MP Garth Turner’s blog:
Garth, please vote yes. I don’t live in your district. Or even in the same province as you, but this matter is crucial. That debate over SSM must be re-opened.
Do you know what happens to a club after gay people start going to it? Pretty soon everyone starts going to it. Gay men start getting manicures, dressing well, and coiffing their hair, next thing you know, straight men are doing the same thing. Gay men start watching a show about gay men fixinf up straight people’s lives, and now, you guessed it, everyone’s watching it.
Giving gay people the right to get married is going to cause nothing else but the revitalization of marriage. Straight people who have been avoiding it, in a desire to be hip and cool like gay people, will flock to marriage. As a single guy, there’s nothing I hate more than marriage. My friends dissapearing from my life. Little screaming children running around with their terrible screaming parents threatening them with abandonment if they don’t go to the car right away. Marriage has been and will always be the bane of my existence, and the more gay people who get married, the stronger it will get. Which is a future I don’t want to face. For the sake of singlehoodness, please vote to re-open the debate. Please vote yes.
I, of course, still support it fully.
Yeah, I admit, totally taken from Barney. Although in my defence, my friends claim I am Barney (and strangely growing up, they claimed I was Doogie).
However, I felt it was necessary to put forth an argument that was ridiculous if only because I do not feel there is potential for a serious debate on this topic. Sure the nays have wised up and stopped turning to the bible as their stated argument, but the new ideas they come up with now are no less ridiculous than the bible. Natural law? Please.
And so after watching this week’s HIMYM, I realized what I had to say.