The anti-gay forces here in Massachusetts never cease to amaze with their surreal proclamations. Like a sign the Sunday night at Cambridge City Hall that read “God Blew up the Space Shuttle.” ?!?! But you don’t have to cite Fred Phelps-like crazies to find examples. Take this quote that Bay Windows has from Ron Crews, head of MA Family Institute:
“This in my view is a sad day because the piece of paper that my wife and I received 34 years ago had bride and groom on it, and this piece of paper is significantly different from that, and that goes to the very core definition about what marriage is about,” said Crews.
“When my wife and I got married, the first time we consummated our marriage relationship we had the potential for producing a child,” he added. “We eventually produced four children in our 34 years of marriage. These couples, as much as they will enjoy their sexual union, can never produce a child by their sexual activity. And that goes to the core definition that marriage has always been linked to producing the next generation and raising the next generation.”
How creepy. Maybe people wouldn’t mistake Crews for an excessively romantic type to begin with, but to reduce one’s honeymoon to a clinical, even Fordist, scenario of producing children seems beyond the pale. This is one reason I feel optimistic that the political pendulum will continue to swing our way, whether in the legislature or on the referendum ballot. One on side you have couples clearly in love and clearly beaming with happiness to be married. On the other you have a bizarre attempt to insist that romantic love and sexual enjoyment don’t have much to do with marriage, it’s all about producing children. Hell, even if some people are in loveless or sexless marriages, the Option A must seem far more appealing.
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