{"id":4748,"date":"2014-08-01T07:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2014-08-01T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T12:06:35","slug":"i-think-were-done-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"I think we’re done here"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been busy sorting our stuff out after a huge move–and it’s all still in boxes. \u00c2\u00a0In the meantime, as we get back up to speed here, please consider this piece in Slate<\/a> about the general terribleness of arguments against marriage equality, etc.<\/p>\n

A taste:<\/p>\n

The answer, it turns out, is that there are none\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnone, at least, that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t driven by animus. A review of the failed attempts here is instructive. At various points, conservatives argued that every child deserves a mom and a dad; that gay people simply make inferior parents; that marriage isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t marriage without penile-vaginal penetration; that legalizing gay marriage would lower birth rates; and, best of all, that somehow, allowing gay people to get married would cause more\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>straight<\/em>people to have children out of wedlock.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve talked about this topic quite a lot here. \u00c2\u00a0In fact, of all topics, it seems to have produced the most commentary.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s time, as the author suggests (and I think as Colin had argued here a long time ago<\/a>), to consider this argument over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been busy sorting our stuff out after a huge move–and it’s all still in boxes. \u00c2\u00a0In the meantime, as we get back up to speed here, please consider this piece in Slate about the general terribleness of arguments against marriage equality, etc. A taste: The answer, it turns out, is that there are none\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnone, … Continue reading I think we’re done here<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,1582,1884,1885,1883],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-gay-marriage","tag-idiotic-arguments-against-marriage-equality","tag-mark-joseph-stern","tag-marriage-equality","tag-slate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}