Take California

[featherynscale]

Judge rules against gay marriage ban.

Now the interesting part of this article, to me, anyway, is the bit down at the very, very end... it could be my first sighting of an argument against gay marriage that is not based in the Christian religion. Let's take a look, shall we?

Two groups opposed to gay marriage rights, The Campaign for California Families and the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund, argued that the state has a legitimate interest in restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples as a way of encouraging procreation.

OK. Let's forget for a moment that forbidding same-sex couples to marry does not necessarily in any way encourage the individuals involved to procreate. That's not important right now. This is the question I'm interested in: Is it in the state's interest to encourage procreation in the first place?

Discuss.

Comments

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

What I find interesting is that most people who wish to encourage procreation, discourage practing the act that leads to procreation.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure. If you're doing it for procreation only, you don't have to do it that often, and there's no reason to be good at it, you know. A lousy lay can get you as pregnant as a good one.

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there is any correlation between good sex and the chance of getting pregnant...I think I have just found an area of sexual experimentation I have no desire to participate in.

Don't know, but

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

there has been some gender-planning research done on whether there is more likelihood of a baby's being a boy or a girl based on whether the mother had an orgasm during the sex that led to conception. Not being the sort who cared one way or the other, I don't remember exactly which way it went, but I think orgasms lead to more boys.

*Whoops. Screwed up the averages on that data.*

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is. Due to the physics and particular pattern of muscle contractions in the female oragsm, it is far more likely for sperm to make it past the cervix and into the uterus if the female orgasms than if she doesn't.

At least, that's what they said on the Discovery Channel.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Kind of analagous to warp drive into hyperspace, isn't it?

Well, there you go

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Further evidence for intelligent design a system that works to encourage procreation and reproduction of the species, but has fuck-all to do with marriage and living arrangements.