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Related: About this forumThe new argument against gay equality: Same-sex marriage kills
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By Dana Milbank Opinion writer April 20 at 6:52 PM
As the Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next week, conservative scholars have produced a last-ditch argument to keep the scourge of homosexual unions from spreading across the land: Gay marriage kills.
Theyre saying that legalizing same-sex marriage will cause 900,000 abortions.
The logic is about as obvious as if they had alleged that raising the minimum wage would increase the frequency of hurricanes. If anything, youd think that more same-sex marriages would mean more adoptions.
To wit: Legalizing same-sex marriage devalues marriage and causes fewer heterosexual couples to marry, which leads to a larger number of unmarried women, who have abortions at higher rates than married women. As a result, Schaerr wrote, nearly 900,000 more children of the next generation would be aborted as a result of their mothers never marrying. This is equal to the entire population of the cities of Sacramento and Atlanta combined.
Case closed! Or at least it would be, if Schaerrs causal chain were real. He freely acknowledged that he had no cause-and-effect proof when I asked him about it at Heritage on Monday.
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More insane RW 'logic'.
Who is this guy? You guessed it:
'...but Schaerr a former clerk to Antonin Scalia is now making a similar argument, claiming to show drops in marriage rates in the years after states adopted same-sex marriage.
Yep, one of Tony's protegees.
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The new argument against gay equality: Same-sex marriage kills (Original Post)
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. Sooo, how about giving women the medical tools to prevent unwanted pregnancies?
Don't know about you, but this seems like a great way to combat the plague of gay-marriage!
Gothmog
(145,242 posts)2. This has to be one of the dumbest arguments ever
There are no causal links at all to the logic of this claim
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)4. Surely you jest...causal links in RW logic? LOL!
teenagebambam
(1,592 posts)3. I'd be willing to bet
That those same states that showed "drops on marriage rates" after they adopted same-sex marriage (if that's even accurate) ALSO showed drops in abortion rates.
William769
(55,147 posts)5. Jesus H. Christ!
Fearless
(18,421 posts)6. A tailormade George Carlin commentary...
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)7. Brilliant stuff, as usual! R.I.P.