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DYLAN SCOTT JULY 3, 2014, 10:13 AM EDT
Kentucky advanced some interesting arguments to defend its ban on gay marriage: The state said it had an "economic interest" in banning the marriages because only opposite-sex marriage leads to procreation, which in turn benefits the economy.
U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II had some choice words for those arguments in his decision Tuesday striking down the ban: They are "not those of serious people."
From Heyburn's decision, posted by the Louisville Courier-Journal:
"The states attempts to connect the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage to its interest in economic stability and in 'ensuring humanitys continued existence' are at best illogical and even bewildering," he concluded. The state of Kentucky isn't the only entity pushing that argument, though: former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the same last month.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kentucky-gay-marriage-economy-argument-not-serious
randys1
(16,286 posts)not one, other than their bigoted and incorrect interpretation of a book that is written about unreal invisible people
Revolution is coming, one way or another.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)They say when poor people have children it's bad for the economy.Now they are saying gays are bad for the economy because of reproduction.Even though they adopt children and now the state don't have to care for them.Gays work, pay taxes, but homes cars etc. WTF?