Really, Why Do You Oppose Gay Marriage?

Sunday, December 13, 2009

By Amy Alkon

Really, Why Do You Oppose Gay Marriage?
Deborah Solomon interviews U of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum for The New York Times Magazine. Nussbaum sees right through the excuse that gay marriage will somehow do damage to straight marriages:

Your inquiries have lately revolved around the politics of physical revulsion, which you see as the subtext for opposition to same-sex marriage. What is it that makes people think that a same-sex couple living next door would defile or taint their own marriage when they don't think that, let's say, some flaky heterosexual living next door would taint their marriage? At some level, disgust is still operating.

Sorry if you think it's weird that Brian and Steve want to marry, but they -- and their children -- deserve the same rights and protections as heterosexual couples and their children.

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jjtaup

(con't from above)
...So, I'm just a freakin' bigot. That's my excuse. But really, what's everyone else's? I mean, gosh, people, you're so blessedly righteous and shiny white when up against the gay haters like me. And yet you won't accept the notion that, clearly, a mother should be able to marry her son, or a man his daughter. Or that a sister should be able to marry her sister. Or that an aunt and an uncle should be able to marry their great niece and nephew and the family cat in the mix.

I'm an honest bigot. What's everyone else's excuse?
jjtaup

Well, for my part, I am opposed because I'm a homophobe. I am just brimming with hatred for homosexuals and want to deny them every possible right under the sun.

Obviously, there's absolutely no connection or influence or information bleed or what have you between Steve and Steve's marriage and mine. It's not like once gay marriage is a "right" then that will lead to laws mandating that children be taught even more thoroughly about homosexual practices--starting of course when they're ready for it, say, about kindergarten. And it's not like this will lead to a whole friggin' nother Encyclopedia Britannica of hate crimes laws and statutes like, say, pointing out that AIDS began in the homosexual community...

(con'td)
Gwen

Thank you for this. It's so true!
Elliot

Hear hear!

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