The Gay Marriage Consequences

How would your life change if gay marriage was legalized?

Of course the lives of committed homosexuals, i.e., your fellow man, would improve, but I'm talking about your life.

Are you anti-gay marriage advocates afraid there will be gloating on the part of the homosexual community? Are you viewing gay marriage as you do your upcoming slow-pitch softball game against the local (we're-the-only-ones-going-to-heaven) Church of Christ? Though losing a sports game has no lasting repercussions, you'd hang your head in shame simply because you failed; just like you'd do if gay marriage was legalized.

The bottom line is that there is absolutely no way your life, nor society, would suffer one iota if a man and a man were allowed to wed.

Common sense tells you that gay marriage wouldn't pave the way for a man to legally obtain the right to marry one or more of the following: his beloved box turtle, his first cousin, eight women, or the entire cast of Glee. Common sense does this the same way it informs you the school administrator who expelled the first-grader for accidentally bringing a plastic knife to school, violating the zero tolerance policy, acted stupidly.

Funny how the only secular argument against gay marriage involves far-fetched scenarios to which the best retort is usually a simple, "Come on!"

You resemble children who've outgrown a stuffed toy that's collecting dust in the corner yet won't let your younger sibling snuggle up against for the simple reason the plush panda makes them happy.

"Satisfied gays make me sick! If they're gonna live in sin, I'm going to make them dedicate every waking hour to achieving the same benefits my opposite-sex spouse and I enjoy! For no 'offense' other than settling down with the person to whom they're most attracted, they will pay! Dearly, those scum suckers will pay!"

Really!?

It means that much to you!?

It means so much you're willing to waste your time, their time, your money and their money to fight a fight rooted in spite?

Think of all the progress and charity you're preventing. As usual, organized religion hinders goodness.

Seeing as how your life would not change, spite is the only explanation.

If an individual were completely ignorant of religion, you do realize it would be impossible to convince him or her that gay marriage would directly lead to the decline of society, right?

If you stated, "A man and a woman can create a child, while a man and a man (or a woman and a woman) lack that specific capability," a person unaware books have been written, allegedly inspired by a higher power, could easily retort, "Yeah, but since many heterosexual couples abuse their own children, doesn't the physical capability of persons to reproduce have little to do with the quality of parent they become? More individuals are heterosexual than not, so legalizing gay marriage will not lead to the extinction of mankind. And wouldn't an increase in gay married couples lead to an increase in loving households ready and willing to adopt unwanted children produced by heterosexual people?"

Please at least admit your opposition to gay marriage is solely based on a book on which American laws are not supposed to be rooted. Please don't try and make it seem as if you're concerned with the well being of society. Don't argue, "A child is better off with a man and woman at the helm," when you know full well that a child needs only loving and moral guardians to thrive.

Please admit your only desire is to see the country governed by rules your specific religious text promotes. Of course you'd like society to focus on statutes that don't hinder your ability to enjoy life. Because you need to inhale dozens of alcoholic drinks every day of the week ending in "Y', passages frowning upon excessive drunkenness should be ignored, i.e., interpreted differently. Because you enjoy intimate relations with members of the opposite sex, Biblical passages forbidding same-sex love are not open to debate.