GAYS DEFEND MARRIAGE

Every time I have claimed that “marriage equality” activists don’t understand what marriage is, I have used the fact they see no firm link between sexual fidelity and marriage as my evidence.

I now have a shocking second set of data: the attitude toward some gay marriage proponents toward adult consensual incest.

Yesterday, on this Web site, frequent commenter Mark Barton, an articulate and passionate defender of same-sex marriage rights, said he saw no reason “marriage equality” should not extend to adult twin brothers. (Shades of Life in Hell‘s Jeff and Akbar – Matt Groening asked “are they brothers or lovers or both?”)

An Orthodox Jewish gay supporter of same-sex civil marriage – we’ll call him “Allen” – complained that in arguing with me over who should be allowed to marry that I claimed he said a father should be allowed to marry his 14-year-old son. He insisted that he said “parent,” not father, and it was homophobic of me to focus on same-sex incest. My reaction was that I was giving him the benefit of the doubt since at least with father-son incest there’s no problem with inbreeding. And he verified he sees no reason a mother and her young teenage son shouldn’t have civil “marriage equality.”

Do I really have to argue why people who think identical twins – and parents and their teenage offspring – should be legally allowed to marry have no idea what marriage is?

If I do, let’s duke it out in the comments section below. Any gays and lesbians who agree that the above people do not understand what marriage is are encouraged to say so.

A side note: This is an example of the perversity (hey, I almost never use that word in gay debates but here it’s perfectly appropriate) that arises when a person decides what’s moral based his own argumentation and rationalization rather than allowing historical tradition or Revelation or both influence him. Mark has made it clear that he thinks his approach is an argument whereas my approach is not. I do not disagree at all. I do believe, and think when most people think about it they will believe, that my system leads to more moral behavior than his. The proof is in the pudding.