Dear opponents of marriage equality,
As the time for SCOTUS to weigh in on DOMA and Prop 8 nears, I’ve noticed that y’all are becoming slightly shriller (if such a thing is possible) in your insistence on the dire consequences of permitting same-sex couples to marry. All of these objections are ludicrous. They would have to be, since there are no legitimate, compelling reasons to deny loving couples the ability to legally commit to one another.
The most offensive of these objections comes in the form of the slippery-slope argument. It goes something like this: “If we allow same-sex couples to marry, we’re going to have to allow polygamy! We’ll have to allow people to marry children! And their pets! And toasters!”
Setting aside how offensive it is to compare gay relationships to pedophilia, bestiality, and polygamy (and it’s incredibly offensive), this argument is easily deconstructed — so easily, in fact, that it has been thoroughly debunked countless times before, but I’m going to go ahead and do it again, just this once.
Authored By Jessica Gerson – See the Full Story at The Huffington Post
