FU SCOTUS!

Seems like gay marriage is the hot topic right now – at least if you can manage to filter out the bad noise about how desperate the Dems are to gain traction on the President. I imagine I’ve covered this ground before but allow me to elaborate on why I think this is a Very Bad Thing^TM.

To start with one has to ask, why is marriage a big deal anyway? What’s the bloody point? I suppose, back in the day of dragging your woman around by the topknot, it was a far better idea to spread your seed as liberally as possible. Surely many dozens of those future humans got bumped off daily by the wide assortment of predatory beasties inhabiting the early aeons of the planet. Being fruitful and multiplying was the order of the day.

As folks settled down a bit and began to tame the land such willy-nilly fruitfulness became more trouble than it was worth. If a man owns land and farms land we couldn’t have him exponentially multiplying himself onto his neighbor’s lawn. So, someone decided we’d settle for one man and one woman in order to ensure societal stability. It didn’t hurt that the folks who wrote down the Book of Genesis recorded that God himself started with one man and one woman.

This arrangement also led to the happy result that when folks got down and fruitful the kids grew up in a more stable environment and determined to get fruitful with only one other person themselves.

To ensure the continuity of this newfangled idea society, over the years, came up with all sorts of incentives. Tax credits, joint accounts, big wedding bashes, honeymoons, etc. Of course, marriage isn’t all happiness and bliss for the two become one, rather it’s a contract with society. If big-S society provides the married couple with certain benefits the married couple in return provides society with stability and the means to propagate itself.

So, why shouldn’t we allow gay folks to marry? Surely some stability would do them good? Absolutely, I say. Stability would be a most excellent thing and I am loath to see anyone unable to tastefully express their attachment in the most public manner possible. However, what benefit does society get? Stability is fine as far as it goes but, like I mentioned before, the main benefit of stability is that offspring are raised in a positive atmosphere conducive to their becoming good contributors to society. Gay folks can’t provide that. Certainly they can adopt unwanted kids and raise them up to be productive citizens but that can’t propagate the species and given the birth rate troubles western civilization finds itself in, non-procreators are becoming a serious problem.

So, civil marriage – and the benefits that go with it – is a social contract. If you can’t fulfill your half of the bargain then what’s the point?