After reading Benjamin Burwell's column on the Marriage Protection Amendment, I stared at it in disbelief. I'm not at all surprised that there are people who still think it is okay to discriminate against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
To be quite honest, we deal with it on a regular basis, especially from the religious community. What did surprise me is the emphasis he placed on procreation as a necessary component of marriage. This is absurd.
If we followed Mr. Burwell's theory of appropriate marriages, there would be a large portion of the heterosexual population excluded from walking down the aisle. Apparently, if a man and a woman love each other but decide not to have children, allowing them to get married would be "condoning deficient sexual expressions of love," according to Burwell.
Am I the only one who thinks that this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? This is why we cannot let religious views influence public policy - it doesn't make sense.
