10 Non-Religious Arguments Against SSM: Parts 5-6
August 3, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Anthony Esolen adds reasons 5 & 6 against SSM.
Reason 5: makes friendship socially impossible
Reason 6: restricting marriage to 2 can no longer be maintained
See here for Parts 1-4
I think that reason number 5 is my favourite. How purely ridiculous! Men cannot be friends anymore, like in the good old days, because of same sex marriage? You have got to be kidding me!
Here are a few “brilliant” snippits that made me laugh.
“Indeed, how many of us can even understand the passion of friendship in David’s lament for Jonathan, or Gilgamesh’s lament for Enkidu, without coloring it with the suspicion of homosexuality?”
Easy, dumbass, they were really good friends. Most people would be really sad if one of their best friends was killed or hurt or taken away. However, not many of us can write down our feelings in rhyming couplets.
“If homosexuality is at the least not publicly condoned, then that may clear away sufficient ground for men to forge the emotionally fulfilling friendships that they once enjoyed in the past.”
So, this is just one more thing you want to pin on homosexuals? Men just cannot be friends anymore? Are you kidding?
“Not so long ago, it was conceivable to suppose that two men might share an apartment merely as close friends; if Oscar and Felix of The Odd Couple did the same thing now, homosexuality would be the first thing to cross your mind, whether you support the homosexual agenda or reject it.”
Tell that to all the frat boys who live together, dude…I suspect you will get a much different answer. Now, if the two “roommates” slept in the same bed, then that would be a different story. Give me a break. The primary function of sharing a living space with someone you are not having sex with is to reduce costs, i.e. a roommmate.
“It is simply an anthropological fact that male friendship is essential for the full development of the boy’s intellect: the history of every society reveals it. But now the boys suffer under a terrible pincers attack. The sexual revolution causes them to rouse themselves to interest, or to pretend to interest, in girls long before they or the girls are emotionally or intellectually ready for it; and now the condonement of homosexuality prevents them from publicly preferring the company of their own sex.”
So, you are telling me that little boys don’t think that girls have coodies anymore and cannot prefer the company of other little boys and tonka trucks, just because someone might think they are gay?
“Confess, reader: if you come upon two teenage boys in a pond skinny-dipping, it is the first thing you will think, and you will think it despite the obvious fact that before bathing suits were invented it was the only way two boys could ever be found swimming.”
I don’t know how to respond to this… it did, however, make me laugh.
This made me laugh as well. I am bisexual and everyone that I was friends with before I came out is still friends with me now. If anyone ruins their friendship with someone who says they’re gay, it’s because of their own insecurity with their sexuality.
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