3. Marriage is good for children. Newsflash: Most heterosexual couples are able to reproduce whereas homosexual couples can’t. (This means they’re not equal categories). Another newsflash: When heterosexuals do have children, they will either be male or female. That’s why a real marriage has one male and one female. It best facilitates the modeling of appropriate conduct for both boys and girls. If you need this explained to you then you are probably suffering from severe intellectual hernia. Or maybe you just believe that all sex differences are socially constructed, which means you are definitely suffering from severe intellectual hernia.
So the argument that gay couples do not equally benefit society really isn’t a violation of any community standard that could demand to be taken seriously. It’s just common sense. In fact, those who would argue that same sex couples are “just the same” are violating widely accepted standards of intellectual honesty and reasoned discourse. But that’s not the real issue here. The issue is Facebook’s new role as an attached and non-neutral judge in the court of public opinion.
Around the time of my Facebook banning, a gay couple sued a Colorado baker because he would not bake a cake for their same sex “wedding.” Another gay couple previously sued a New Mexico photographer because she would not photograph their same sex “wedding.” Neither suit was necessary because there are lots of bakers and photographers out there who would have been willing to offer their services for same sex “weddings.”
But neither couple wanted to exercise the freedom to choose among available alternatives. They wanted to destroy the religious freedom of people who disagree with them. It should be noted that while there are lots of bakers and photographers, there’s only one Facebook. So the consequences of Facebook’s decisions are of greater moment.
So, what’s next for those who wish to promote the exclusion of ideas in deference to the idea of inclusiveness? Are we headed toward two Facebooks – one for traditionalists and one for progressives? And, if so, how much longer before the union dissolves over its irreconcilable differences?
