{"id":4613,"date":"2003-07-29T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:24:21","slug":"cant_tell_your-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/29\/cant_tell_your-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Can’t tell your players without a program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another off-the-wall reason why gay marriage is a Bad Thing: it means women can be replaced<\/a>. Yes, that’s right, the removal of a woman as one-half of a marriage (at least among marriages between gay men) would be a defeat for women’s rights. Or their right to be brides. Or something like that.<\/p>\n

Our [Canadian] Constitution’s phrases about “not discriminate” once meant “not treat unfairly,” but is now re-interpreted as “not distinguish.” It is taken to mean that men and women are the very same thing.
\nBut they are not the same. Over the last hundred years there has been good progress in getting women represented in such institutions as the courts and parliament. If it is now decided that a man can represent a woman, will there be any necessity to have women in other institutions?<\/p>\n

Right. If women can be booted out of gay marriages, then they can be booted out of the workplace, too.<\/p>\n

Men are physically stronger than women. They have more influence in society. They earn higher incomes with better pensions. They are employable even after age 50. They are not subject to the potential dangers of childbirth, one of the many uncertainties of a marriage. How can two men, two equally privileged persons, say they form a marriage?<\/p>\n

Gay marriage — yet another attempt by the patriarchy to degrade and oppress women. You heard it here, first (unless you heard it first on the CBC).<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n

(via Daimnation<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another off-the-wall reason why gay marriage is a Bad Thing: it means women can be replaced. Yes, that’s right, the removal of a woman as one-half of a marriage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51667,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/so-what-kind-of-traditional-marriage-does-gay-marriage-undermine.html","url_meta":{"origin":4613,"position":0},"title":"So what kind of "traditional marriage" does gay marriage undermine?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Jul-15 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting consideration of part of what's behind the \"marriage equality threatens traditional marriage\" argument.'It\u2019s not because straight people won\u2019t want to get married if gays are doing it, too. It\u2019s because it redefines marriage as an institution of love instead of oppression.'I.e., the traditional part that is threatened is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51618,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/scotus-upholds-marriage-equality.html","url_meta":{"origin":4613,"position":1},"title":"SCOTUS upholds marriage equality","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Jun-15 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bravo. And congratulations to all of my gay fellow citizens who have longed for this day. \"It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/04\/dennis_dennis_d.html","url_meta":{"origin":4613,"position":2},"title":"Dennis, Dennis, Dennis …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Mar-04 1:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've usually found Dennis Prager to be an insightful and intelligent commentator on religion and society. I've listened to him on the radio, on and off, for years. 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