March 24, 2004

Ban all marriages!

The battle over gay marriage took a turn for the surreal yesterday, when Benton County in Oregon banned all marriage, gay or straight, until they can decide what to do about this issue. This is the same county that had originally planned to hand out marriage licenses this week to same-sex couples, so this was their temporary reaction to that.

The funny thing of course is that groups that support same-sex marriages are happy that they're treating everyone equally. Which I suppose is true...it's not discrimination if all people, gay or straight, are denied the right to marry.

Perhaps this is the solution states have been waiting for...ban marriage outright, and you won't have to worry about gay couples destroying the sanctity of marriage! Even better, divorce won't be an issue, nor will bigamy, adultery, or any of the other sinful practices that threaten marriage!

Posted by jason at March 24, 2004 10:39 AM | TrackBack | Read more: Politics

Comments

but oy, the numbers of people living in sin will skyrocket!

:)

Posted by: heather at March 24, 2004 11:58 AM

I imagine a lot of people will be going across the county line to get married.

Posted by: Jamie at March 24, 2004 01:03 PM

There goes my hopes of marrying a rich woman...

Posted by: dan at March 24, 2004 03:13 PM


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