Ethics

The Dumbest Anti-Gay Marriage Argument Ever

By Ed Brayton

And it can be found, to no one's surprise I'm sure, in the Weekly Standard, written by someone named Sam Schulman. He attempts to frame the argument as not only non-religious but purely pragmatic, but the argument is so godawful that he simply comes across as a buffoon playing a game of word salad with refrigerator magnets. See if you can make any sense of out this "logic." He starts by saying he's all for equal rights in other ways because the roles of gay and straight people in other contexts is, in fact, equal:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).