Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson predicted on his radio program that allowing same-sex marriage in the United States would lead to "group marriage," "marriage between daddies and little girls," or "marriage between a man and his donkey." Dobson called this vision of the future "more or less a prophecy," though, he stressed, not a "divine prophecy, but a prediction." He said that his specific examples, as well as "anything allegedly linked to civil rights," will be "doable, and the legal underpinnings for marriage will have been destroyed."
As ever, what continues to amuse me about statements like this from people like Dobson, ole' "man on dog" Santorum and Bill O'Rielly is not the homophobia. It's the unbelivable twists and turns people will make to avoid saying: I don't think of homosexuals as people.
I mean, there might be something--not much, but something--to be said for a honest homophobe who said this is what I believe and this is how I feel. But no, we gotta dress it up in "concern for marriage" and "religion."
If you don't think two people of the same sex who are in love should be entitled to exactly the same right to get married as anybody else, guess what? You're a homophobe. Accept it. Embrace it. I'm pretty sure there are places where you can still get little hats, and someone will be along to teach you the words to the songs and tell you when the next meeting is.
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