On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:40:51PM +0000, Roy Brown wrote:
> Jay, try examining the hypothesis that what Rosanne Cornelius meant was
> that the more people there are who can get married, then the more
> divorces there will be. i.e. there are no Gay/Lesbian divorces at the
> moment, because the marriages are not allowed in the first place.
>
> But I guess the logical follow-through is that to cut the divorce rate
> from 50%, we might want to start thinking about banning even
> heterosexual marriages.... :-)

Indeed. This is why I reject that interpretation of the argument that
banning marriages between two members of the same gender is a "defense of
marriage", because it leads precisely to your second paragraph. That makes
it plainly nonsensical, as well as ignoring the obvious religious basis for
the argument.

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