Gay Marriage: The Case Against Click HERE to Bring Up Full Post

This blog has gone on record for gay marriage. Let's hear what some on the other side have to say.



I would be interested in learning how preaching Christianity has led to an arrest. Fred Phelps and company are even preaching at Jerry Falwell's funeral, eliciting off-the-meter levels of Schadenfreude for folks like me. But Phelps and company keep eluding arrest. Where are the Christians who have been arrested and booked for praying and preaching in the U.S.? I know of anti-war protesters who got shot in California with rubber bullets for speech, but not Christian preachers. Decades of First Amendment jurisprudence, largely instituted on behalf of Jehovah's Witnesses, protect the right to preach on a street corner (so much so that it is often joked that Jehovah's Witnesses don't lose free exercise cases, period.)

How gays and lesbians are bad for the "economy" is news to me. I would LOVE for my neighborhood to turn majority gay, out of my insatiable raw greed: property values tend to rise when a neighborhood gay-gentrifies. DC's gay community is growing by leaps and bounds and gentrifying the city daily; if gays and lesbians had any compassion they would invade Baltimore similarly, checkbooks in hand. They are good for the public fisc as well; they pay more taxes on the same dollar of income but use very little in the way of government services like public schools and Infants and Toddlers services for autism as my family uses heavily. No doubt there are many gay parents, both actual and aspiring, but gay parents are pretty much immune to a child by "oopsie" which is how about half of all children are conceived. And gay parenting is not a goal of a majority of gay adults,. Economy-killers, right. May they "kill" my neighborhood's economy and may it never recover.

In fairness, there are far more eloquent and educated advocates of the other side of this issue than the rubes who provided the freak-show display above, just as there are anti-war voices less "head-trip zombie" than Cindy Sheehan's. Some among those more eloquent voices may be among our own Maryland Blogger Alliance. I recognize how serious, educated and fair-minded people can disagree on this issue, either as a matter of moral principle or as a practical policy (or jurisprudential) matter. Serious, educated and fair-minded people did not appear in the YouTube above, I believe.

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