MY RELIGION AND OTHER THINGS YOU DON’T NEED TO SHARE TO AGREE WITH ME ABOUT MARRIAGE: Look, I’m Catholic. My religion says guys shouldn’t boff guys and girls shouldn’t boff girls. Obviously, that affects my view of same-sex marriage.

But I do not think you need to share my faith or my moral assessment of homosexual acts in order to agree with me about SSM. If I thought that, I wouldn’t bother making secular arguments on this blog! I don’t make arguments I don’t agree with. So if I’m not talkin’ God in a moral/ethical/political argument, you can take it that I don’t think I need to.

So first of all, I think the non-Catechism-related arguments I make here (specifically here, here, here, here*) are valid. But also, I know or have read the work of several people (like Professor Paul Nathanson) who do not believe that homosexual acts are immoral, but oppose same-sex marriage. Several of my (atheist, agnostic, Deist, but definitely not Christian) close friends fall into this category. If they did it, you can too!

*LINKS COMING AS SOON AS MY ARCHIVES ARE FIXED… SORRY.