Gay marriage? To what end?

Supposedly, Rob Portman came out in favor of gay marriage when he found out his son was gay. Were his son a murderer, would Portman suddenly be put off by the bias against murderers?


Yeah, that’s an extreme example, and NO I’m not comparing homosexuals to murderers. I’m just wondering how fungible Portman’s principles are.

If Portman’s son took a free LB phone, would Portman be for free phones? If Portman’s son announced he were a staunch supporter of the Demo-Dope party, would Portman change party affiliation?

If Portman had a strongly held belief that marriage is reserved for the relationship between one man and one woman, I’m trying to figure out what difference it makes that his son is gay. How does a gay son change someone’s life long belief in what the word marriage means?

I have never understood the whole “People ought to be able to love whoever they want” argument. Is there something that says they can’t? I’m quite sure if a gay couple wanted to "marry" they could find someone to perform the ceremony for them without a word from the state. What they cannot afford themselves to is the legal tax structure afforded a married couple.

So is all the hubbub about the tax code? There are two easy fixes. One: Take the DoD approach and allow any “committed couple” to file at the married rate. Now the Demo-Dopes will have a problem with that solution. I can hear them now, “How are you going to pay for that tax break to cohabitating couples? Two: Eliminate the married filing a joint return altogether.

Then the only real break for married heterosexual couples will be for children. Demo-Dopes will see this as an assault on gays. Why should heterosexuals be the only ones allowed to pro-create? Demo-Dopes will pass a law whereby all heterosexual couples must provide their first off-spring to the government for redistribution to homosexual couples.

I do not understand what end gays being “married” supports, unless it is to gain a meager tax break or force churches to marry them. I can see the further assault Catholic church as defends its right to practice its religion as it sees fit. The government already thinks it can force the church to change its stand on providing abortion and contraceptives. Does anyone seriously believe that the government won't force churches to marry gay couples after President Rodham signs the executive order making gay marriage legal in all 50 states?

And here’s the main thing. Anyone who offers the slightest resistance even to the point of saying, “Fine you do whatever you like over there, but we have our own beliefs that we’re going to exercise over here. We love and respect you, but we as a matter of conscientious we will practice our beliefs here,” well, those people will be demonized.

They will do to anyone who stands against them what they are doing to the Boy Scouts of America. The Boy Scouts hate no one. But they are hated by the left for having the temerity to believe something other than approved leftist thought.

So you get leftist using their lemming star power to trash and lie about them. The exact same thing will happen to churches who stand against performing gay marriages.