Iraq is Anti-Marriage
When it comes to hitting nails on the head, Shakespeare's Sister ("En Gard") has a very precise aim with her hammer:
I have a question for conservatives who support both the Iraq War and banning gay marriage. Can you produce one instance of a gay marriage actually undermining the sanctity of a heterosexual marriage, or causing the divorce of a straight couple? And if I could produce evidence that the Iraq War is detrimental to marriage, would you support a Constitutional amendment immediately requiring the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq and banning future preemptive wars the same way you support a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage? Because I can: […]
Personally, even though I am one of the dreaded marriage-wreckers myself, I've never quite been able to figure out just what the "save marriage first" crowd is all about. Ever since their "marriage is about procreation" argument was quickly seen to be specious over a decade ago (the way I remember it, but some persistent folk just haven't gotten the memo), they've been trying to work up this "end of civilization through marriage wrecking" argument.
Overstating, of course, over reaching, and generally overlooking all the shortcomings of this marriage approach, too. Usually things like imagining marriage an unchanging institution* that stretches back at least to the extinction of the dinosaurs (young-earth timeframe, generally speaking) and silly statements about just what marriage is for, with some salty seasoning about the downfall of those civilizations that go the gay-marriage route.
The best I've ever come up with is simply the observation that, in the last couple of decades, as gay visibility increased and overt gay-bashing vilification decreased (for awhile, at least, before we became such a valuable "wedge issue"), it made it safer and easier for more mature people to realize their orientation and to choose to act on it. Thus, the phenomenon of middle-aged men who'd been married for over 20 years "suddenly" (so it appeared to clueless and shocked observers) turning gay and leaving their wives. What was never recognized by these (clueless and shocked) observers was neither the years of pain these men suffered from repressing and hiding their feelings, nor the fact that many of them only separated from their wives after lengthy, private working with their wives to arrive at the coming-out point.
Clearly, the war in Iraq is a much more serious marriage-wrecker than the militant homosexual agenda, and one that people serious about protecting marriage could do something about even while implanting their snowflake babies and getting their "sanctity of life" certificates, suitable for framing.
Why, even the Downing Street Memo alleges that Bush is anti-sanctity!
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*Let's get real: the only institution that has been unchanging for nearly that long is the Roman Catholic Church, and even they managed to change their views about Galileo after 400 years.