UPDATE 6.29.11: I've tried to make this a video response to Greg Koukl's recent video about same-sex marriage, but he has not approved it as a response. Here is a link to the video: www.youtube.com A response in particular to the TheAtheistAntidote's video "Gay Marriage NO; Respect YES", and more generally to all those who make the procreation-centric (or anatomical) argument in favor of the state's exclusively privileging heterosexual marriage. The procreation-centric (or anatomical) argument destroys rather than strengthens the foundation for the exclusive privileging of heterosexual marriage. How odd that those who identify themselves as defenders of marriage would rely on an argument that destroys it. But, as Jonathan Rauch astutely observes, these folks are so fixated on preventing homosexuals from getting the legal right to marry that if marriage itself is a casualty of their battle, the self-styled defenders seem to say, "So be it!" Links: Jonathan Rauch's essay "For Better Or Worse? The Case for Gay (and Straight) Marriage" -- www.jonathanrauch.com TheAtheistAntidote's video -- www.youtube.com NB: For those who argue that the state should not be in the marriage business -- a position with which I am not unsympathetic -- please note that *that* is not the subject of this video. Rather, this video is a refutation of a particular argument for the state's exclusive privileging of heterosexual marriage. Thanks.
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