Why Are the “Open-Minded” So Limited, Narrow, and Restricting?

It seems almost everybody who is anybody (or wants to be somebody) is pushing “gay marriage” nowadays. One of the latest promotions came from MSNBC host Krystal Ball, who used her young daughter in a segment titled “Political Playground” on April 4 to try to win her viewers over.

She begins by asking her daughter if she would marry a boy someday if they were in love. She then asks her daughter if she would marry a girl someday if they were in love. After that little charade, Ms. Ball goes on to explain to her daughter how “strange” it is that some states don’t allow gay marriage. Her reasoning: “You want people to be able to marry who they are in love with, right?”

This rhetorical question is the driving force, the trump card, behind the push for gay marriage. It is the heart and soul of the red graphic with the “equal” sign pictured above, as well as the slogan “Support Marriage Equality.”

I wonder if those who “want people to be able to marry who they are in love with” realize exactly what they are promoting?

With such a definition, there are endless possibilities when it comes to marriage.

For starters, there is the traditional definition of marriage—one man and one woman.

The proponents of gay marriage are also pushing for the marriage of two men, as well as the marriage of two women.

But why stop there? If you truly “want people to be able to marry who they are in love with,” then you must add the following pairs who are in love:

• a sister and brother
• sisters
• brothers
• a father and daughter
• a father and son
• a mother and son
• a mother and daughter
• cousins (male and female, two males, or two females)
• an adult (male or female) and a teen (male or female)
• an adult (male or female) and a pre-teen (male or female)
• teens (male and female, two males, or two females)
• pre-teens (male and female, two males, or two females)
• and so on and so forth...

We’re not done yet. Not by a long shot. If you truly “want people to be able to marry who they are in love with,” then you must add the following groups who are in love:

• a man and multiple women
• a man and multiple men
• a woman and multiple men
• a woman and multiple women
• multiple men and multiple women
• a man and multiple children (male and/or female)
• a woman and multiple children (male and/or female)
• multiple adults (male and/or female) and multiple teens (male and/or female)
• multiple adults (male and/or female) and multiple pre-teens (male and/or female)
• and so on and so forth...

Supporters of gay marriage, who are you to restrict marriage to two people? To adults? To non-relatives? You call supporters of traditional marriage “intolerant” and “close-minded” and “bigoted” for opposing gay marriage. Look in the mirror of your own definition. If you oppose any of the combinations of people listed above (as well a thousand other combinations one can come up with), you are the one who is “intolerant” and “close-minded” and “bigoted.”

You claim you want marriage equality. But your own definition is very limited, very narrow, very restricting.

You’ve made the intolerant, close-minded, bigoted bed. Enjoy sleeping in it!