Oh, dear. It appears that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has declared a national emergency.
You remember HRC, no? That’s the group that up to about a decade ago pushed for gay people to have the same civil marriage rights as straight people: to marry one other competent adult of their choosing who matched their sexual interests. They assured us: permitting gay marriage won’t start a slide down a slippery slope. It won’t lead to group marriage, or the evisceration of civic distinctions between men and women, or a demand that the whole of society kowtow in obeisance to non-traditional families and lifestyles. Rather, marriage equality would allow everyone to be treated equally before the law, and to leave one another alone in their personal commitments and their bedrooms.
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