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

[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.