An Iowa resident named Steve Perlowski thinks the gays are a threat to procreation. Because, you know, if gays can marry, straights will suddenly stop fucking.
By legalizing gay marriage, however, the significance of the procreative element in marriage is utterly abandoned. Gay marriage is thus a threat to marriage in that it erodes the relationship of marriage to its procreative significance, which has the potential to result in a paradigm shift in the social relevance of marriage.
Such a radical shift will likely occur because the legalization of gay marriage flings open the crack in the social doorway to every ominous threat to sexual regeneration through marriage, especially biotechnology.
To the extent that procreative potential becomes marginalized in marriage, and as “advances” in the fields of bioengineering become capable of producing human beings without sex, then the regenerative significance of marriage will become all but superfluous.
And, really, who wants to marry for love?
Graywolf48
The man appears to be what I commonly refer to as an educated idiot.
3Dspleen
Educated?? His sentences make no sense.
“significance of the procreative element in marriage is utterly abandoned,” is followed by “erodes the relationship of marriage to its procreative significance.” Which is it? The significance is abandoned or is it revealed (when everything else is eroded away)?
“potential to result in a paradigm shift in the social relevance of marriage” – This is just English paper fluff. It doesn’t really mean anything, it’s just important-sounding words in front of a vague idea, and at any rate, he already stated this in the previous sentence, just with different words.
“ominous threat to sexual regeneration through marriage” – not sure what this is supposed to mean, starting with “sexual regeneration.”
Anyhow, I don’t feel like going on, but, really, can a person sound any stupider?
eagledancer4444
If marriage is only for procreation, why aren’t these people also forbidding it to sterile men and women, or any woman past menopause? (uh–this is a rhetorical question–it’s just I get frustrated whenever I read posts by guys like this who don’t talk the “only for procreation” thing through.)