{"id":406,"date":"2012-02-24T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2012\/02\/haters-same-sex-marriage-is-fake-marriage.html"},"modified":"2012-02-24T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:02:00","slug":"haters-same-sex-marriage-is-fake-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2012\/02\/haters-same-sex-marriage-is-fake-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Haters: Same Sex Marriage Is “Fake Marriage”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Over at the Family Research Council, bastion of theologically grounded hatred, Tony Perkins has launched a new campaign<\/a> against \u201cfake marriage,\u201d better known to sane people as same sex marriage.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to embed or link the video because the slime might leak onto this site and it\u2019s expensive to clean up.\u00a0 Their argument is threefold:<\/p>\n

If same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d is legalized, sex-ed classes from K-12 will be required to teach that same-sex relationships are virtuous, and that anyone who disagrees \u201csuch as parents or pastors\u201d are bigots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This from an organization that warmly embraces Newt Gingrich.\u00a0 Here\u2019s number two:<\/p>\n

If same-sex marriage is imposed nationally, church facilities, family ministries, Christian officials \u201clike county clerks and justices of the peace\u201d and Christian-run wedding businesses and more will be pressured to compromise their views or face crushing legal consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh my goodness!\u00a0 They\u2019re going to feel \u201cpressured\u201d to act like human beings.\u00a0 In truth I don\u2019t give a damn if some Christian wedding planner is uninterested in my business.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to go elsewhere.\u00a0 As for the county clerks and justices of the peace, perhaps they should go into another line of work if they can\u2019t treat the entire public with equality.\u00a0 I seem to recall a recent case where a justice of the peace refused to perform an \u201cinterracial\u201d marriage, too.\u00a0 Number three:<\/p>\n

Decades of social science research shows that same-sex relationships do not have the same level of commitment as traditional marriages. Promiscuity, mental and physical health problems, and other turmoil in same-sex relationships vastly exceed that of heterosexual relationships. That is not message of hate, as homosexual activists claim. Ours is a message of fact-based, loving concern for all, including those trapped in homosexuality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mental health problems supposedly caused by homosexuality are actually caused by homophobia.\u00a0 Their message is fact-free and hatred filled.\u00a0 It is, however, consistent with their primitive theology.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid I was taught that this was the land of the free.\u00a0 So why did I have to go to Canada to get married?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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