The L Word

Posted on March 25, 2004 by Gene

I just heard yet another guy from the Family Research Center give a softer version of their anti-love arguments for marriage. On Morning Edition (without Bob this morning), he gave the usual litany of reasons for marriage, all centered around children. Renee Montaigne pointed out that many married couples are childless, but he just glossed over that. He pointed out specifically that marriage conferred a large number of special rights on straight married couples, yet strangely, didn’t think that was wrong — odd for a group that constantly harps on their belief that gay people want “special rights.”
But, as always, there was one word that he didn’t use, something he had in common with all the other discriminatory assholes over on the right.
He claimed that he would describe a gay couple to his child by saying, “They are two people who care for each other and live together.”
He couldn’t bring himself to say “love.”