Michael Knowles, conservative
political commentator, on his podcast squawking about same-sex
marriage:
“Whether we reverse the Obergefell
decision or not, gay marriage has not been legal for 10 years. Gay
marriage doesn’t exist because it’s not possible. It’s no knock—I got a lot of
friends who are a little light in the loafers. You know, I went to a very gay
university and I’m from New York and I lived in LA. So this has nothing to do
with, you know, the icky gays or whatever. It’s just not possible. It’s just
not what marriage is. As we just discussed, sexual difference, complementarity
is part of the very definition of marriage. And that derives, not from some
thought in that guy’s head, but from nature. So, yeah, we can pass a court
decision or whatever, it’s not gonna change the—whatever word you wanna use for
it—the union that creates and educates children and mutually supports the
spouses. That’s just gonna be what it is.”
Clearly this wingnut—and let me make this
perfectly queer: he has no gay friends because no open and proud gay man
or women would have a friend like this—hasn’t seen the facts, or read a
newspaper, or even spoken to anyone whose brain fires on more than one
cylinder.
Same-sex marriage is here to stay, and
marriage is not just to produce children, but a commitment between two people
to the world, gay or straight. If marriage was only about children then
straight couples who choose not to procreate, or couples who cannot procreate,
would not have the right to marriage.
Michael Knowles, who seems like a
self-loathing, closeted gay man who loves to brag about the gay places he’s
been and the gay schools he went to and the gay friends he has, is still living
in the last century.
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