My crack that same-sex marriage hadn’t caused the sky to fall in any of the places where it has been established prompted a socially-conservative friend to suggest this was a “lame” argument since “no historical event literally causes pure chaos”. He had a point. It was a cheap line.
Nonetheless, homosexuals are going to have to move some if they’re to inflict as much damage upon the institution of marriage as heterosexuals. And of course, in terms of wider society, it is heterosexual marriage that is vastly more important. So it does seem to me that the argument over gay marriage is in some senses a sideshow as far as any sense of societal well-being is concerned. That being the case, I still find it puzzling that the civil – not religious – recognition of homosexual unions should cause such a rumpus.
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