Gay Or Straight, No Kids Means No Marriage
Why gay couples and straight couples without kids are the same in the eyes of some.
Since gay couples can't have children, they shouldn't marry. Or so goes the ruling in more than a few states.
So far, same-sex marriage is only legal in three states: Connecticut, Massachusetts and Iowa. Although it will be legal in Vermont on September 1, and in Maine on September 14, the rest of the country is convinced that gay marriage is a contradiction in terms.
If the purpose of marriage, they say, is to make babies, then how can anyone other than a man and a women be legally married? Read: How To Make A Baby (And Enjoy Trying)
While we prepare an endless rebuttal, let's just play along for a minute and for arguments sake.
What happens, then, when straight couples decide they want to get married but don't want to have children? Are these childless couples suddenly banned from marriage as well?
The Huffington Post recently published an article which makes a case for gay marriage through the eyes of a straight couple without kids.
Beyond any issues of infertility or illness, there are men and women who are married in the eyes of the state, enjoying all of the legal benefits, who have no intention of having children. They seek only companionship and all of the entitlements that come with marriage. Sex, joy, partnership, caring. All of that is theirs, even though they will never bear children and willfully so. If the state says they are free to do that, why aren't gay couples, as well.
We tend to agree with the logic being present here. Don't you?
And while it seems silly to think that society is prepared to outlaw childless heterosexual marriage, we could be headed there very shortly if definition is to be followed and conservatives are not to be questioned.
Discussion
I've never had children, and this makes perfect logical sense to me. But, then, I've always felt that by NOT allowing certain sectors of the population NOT marry, based on virture of sexual identity alone, is discrimination. In Arizona some religious based Org called "PROTECT FAMILIES" rallied big-time to get gay marriage voted down. Now, how in the hell is gay marriage going "against families" or better yet, "keeping families "SAFE""???? Marriage is officially defined now, in AZ, as a union between a man and a woman. Oh BULL. I just read where a bunch of dogs were "married" - sure, let DOGS get married but deny civil rights to human beings????
AMEN. My Dh and I aren't sure if we are going to have kids at all. If you would have made us answer the question when we got married it would have been no. So why are we allowed to marry and other people not? Good thing I live in Iowa. Go Iowa!
