The Terrible Things Gay Marriage Will Do

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Answering Steve Chapman’s challenge, anti-gay marriage crusader Maggie Gallagher comes up with this at NRO. It’s a list of the terrible things that will happen if states pass gay marriage laws:

1. In gay-marriage states, a large minority people committed to traditional notions of marriage will feel afraid to speak up for their views, lest they be punished in some way.
2. Public schools will teach about gay marriage.
3. Parents in public schools who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will be told with increasing public firmness that they don’t belong in public schools and their views will not be accomodated in any way.
4. Religous institutions will face new legal threats (especially soft litigation threats) that will cause some to close, or modify their missions, to avoid clashing with the government’s official views of marriage (which will include the view that opponents are akin to racists for failing to see same-sex couples as married).
5. Support for the idea “the ideal for a child is a married mother and father” will decline.

Of course, the actual challenge was to come up with measurable social indicators (illegitimacy, unmarried cohabitation, crime, etc.) that conservatives would go on record predicting would move in a negative direction in states that passed same-sex marriage laws.

Aside from the hogwash about religious freedom (no one’s freedom is infringed in any way by gay marriage, and gay-marriage proponents are by-and-large willing to adopt religious-liberty-protection clauses if people are really worried), this is just a list that boils down to: “If gays are allowed to marry, they’ll be less stigmatized by society!”

Well, yeah. Good.

HT: The Daily Dish