Anti-gay marriage proponents may have a lot to say against the legalization of same-sex marriages but their arguments may not be able to hold a candle to pro-gay marriage’s rational, albeit sardonic statements if put under scrutiny. Here’s a greatest hits collection of arguments against gay marriage and their respective rejoinders.

  • Marriage is sacred.
      • It’s not wrong to treat marriage as sacred. But the government shouldn’t be obligated to pass legislation that appears to be consistent with a church’s interpretation of God’s will. Separation of the state and church, please.
  • Homosexual relations are not normal nor natural.
      • They say that heterosexual unions are the only natural relationships because those are what we see in nature. An Anglican Archbishop once said, “I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. Even in the world of animals — dogs, cows, lions — we don’t hear of such things.”
      • Is that so? Do we see these animals entering into marriage contracts with one another? No? Then, that would make marriage itself unnatural, right? A trait that isn’t the norm among us humans doesn’t automatically make it unnatural. After all, humans are part of nature.

  • Marriage is for procreation.
      • In relation to the issue of being “unnatural,” people oppose gay marriages because of its inability to produce children, hence it’s “not natural.” Then maybe we should change marriage laws: only fertile couples are allowed to marry.
  • Gay Marriage will undermine marriage as an institution.
      • As if the rising divorce rate isn’t doing its part to undermine the institution of marriage. Oddly enough, those so-called defenders of marriage who are opposing gay marriages are not even trying to campaign to ban divorces.
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