Gay Marriage Will Lead To Socialism! No, really!

Oh dear. And I'm not even sure I agree with gay marriage myself. As with adoption, I kind of suspect it is more about pursuing an ideological agenda and proving a point than a desire for the institution itself. But I may be wrong. I'm certainly wrong in respects to some individual gay men who would be very committed to the idea of marriage. Anyway, here's a perfect way to make opposition to gay marriage look completely ridiculous. And yes, it's a Republican congressman making conservatives look stupid by association again Beyond the Beltway reports: Republican Congressman Steve King makes the most bizarre argument yet against same-sex marriage: KING: Well, we’ve had a significant percentage of people that have come to Iowa as same-sex couples to get married. And that, that percentage is up there some place over a fourth, if I remember correctly on the data that I have seen, and I don’t know that anything is complete at this point. I said that if this is allowed to stand, Iowa will become the Mecca for same-sex marriage and that is becoming the case. I know that there have been buses that have been, have gone to Iowa with loads of people in them in order to get married under the judge-made law. (…) KING: But if, there also would be no rational argument against group marriage. And I just take this along the rationale even further and would say if relationships between individuals cannot be prohibited by the state legislature then there is no ban that can actually be constitutional that would ban group marriage. And it wouldn’t have to be for reasons of, let me say, love or lust. It could be reasons of profitability or avoiding taxes or accessing benefits. So in the end this is something that has to come with a, if there’s a push for a socialist society, a society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together, living collectively off of one pot of resources earned by everyone. That is, this is one of the goals they have to go to is same-sex marriage because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation. They want access to public funds and resources. Eventually all those resources will be pooled because that’s the direction we’re going. And not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.

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