Why you should vote YES on Prop 8

…the state amendment to ban gay marriage if you live in California.
1. Because America is a Christian nation. That’s why Hindus and Muslims aren’t allowed to marry.
2. Because marriage is an intrinsically religious legal ceremony. That’s why atheists can’t get married and why you can’t have a non-religious ceremony.
3. Because gay marriage will undermine traditional marriages. That’s why traditional marriages always work.
4. Because gay marriage is disgusting and we don’t want to think about what they’re doing in the marriage bed. That’s why we never let ugly people or morbidly obese people or old people marry.
5. Because marriage is for procreation. That’s why sterile couples and childfree couples aren’t allowed to marry.
6. Because if we allow gay marriage, then schools will have to encourage it among our children. That’s why everyone is pushing interracial marriage on kindergartners all the time.
7. Because if we allow gay marriage, churches will be forced to marry gay people. Like they’re forced to marry anyone else who walks through their doors.
Okay, all irony aside: You may not like gay marriage. You don’t have to like it. But it is constitutional on a strictly legal level, getting married by a justice of the peace in a non-religious ceremony. Any subsequent religious ceremony doesn’t have to be official, just as commitment ceremonies between gay couples now aren’t official.
You know I don’t usually bring politics into this blog, but this just seems rather simple to me. Deep down, it’s about gay sex disgusting people. And you know what? I don’t care if it disgusts you. Disgust does not a law make. It may not be pretty to you, but in this secular nation with a separation between church and state, a specific religious moral outrage shouldn’t trump the constitutional right to a legal marriage. Separate but equal is not enough.
Please, vote NO on Prop 8.