Marie Osmond on Marriage, Productivity [?], and "Whatever"
When it comes to marriage, … I think that civil rights need to be for all. When you start mixing religion into that and beliefs, you know, I do believe in the Bible. My daughter understands my beliefs. And, and, uh, you know, God said to be married and be productive with your children and, and, you know, replenish the earth or whatever.
–Marie Osmond on marriage equality [quoted by Andy Towle, "Marie Osmond on Gay Rights and Her Lesbian Daughter", Towleroad, 5 May 2009.]
I will try to avoid the sarcasm and simply say that I am stupefied with amazement at how remarkably inarticulate "traditional-marriage" proponents can be when defending their position on the matter of denying equality to same-sex couples.
One begins to think that perhaps their position is indefensible.*
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* Oops, it would seem that a bit of sarcasm sneaked in there, but let's be honest: just how long did you expect that promise to last?
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on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 at 21.20
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Just one of the many, many things that annoys me about their arguments is that marriage exists in order to procreate (or be productive with children??) As part of a childfree heterosexual couple, I find that really irritating personally, on top of my already existing hair-pulling, gnashing-of-teeth kind of annoyance on behalf of homosexual couples.
on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 at 22.09
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Perhaps as a book-end to your pet peeve is mine: that "gay people can't have children". The feeling of the speaker usually is that it is vital that said speaker himself (it's almost always a man) reproduce in order to perpetuate the species.
Of course, the truth is that gay people certainly can have children and many of them do, even doing it the old-fashioned way. (Among others, we know a number of family men who are also gay but who didn't really realize and then acknowledge it for many years.)
In fact, gay people do know how babies are made and we're fully capable of leaping into action (metaphorically speaking) should the perpetuation of the species actually require it — or if it suddenly turned out that straight people weren't creating enough new homosexuals to replenish our ranks.
(Shall we count how long it takes until that last remark turns up in some horrid little anti-gay tract as more evidence of the impending terrorism of the militant homosexual lobby?)