Operation "Sanctity of Marriage" Phase 2

Wanna make a baby? Gulp.
Originally uploaded by vegacura.

First they go after gays and lezbins who want to formalize their respective relationships. Then, they go after...the deliberately childless.

I hope that you are prepared for this. I especially like the idea that they are going to address deliberate childlessness in marriage. What would addressing that entail? Requiring fertility checks of couples who have not reproduced within some reasonable period of time? Or banning all contraception? The latter is more likely. The plan would also have to address women's economic independence as that makes divorce easier, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was emphasis on the need to reinstall a male-dominated family structure even among nonbelievers. After all, it is the institution of traditional marriage that is to be saved here.

Isn't it interesting how the wingnuts don't fight for people. They always fight for institutions that are not living, feeling, hurting entities but just ideas. Marriage must be preserved and the way to do that is to force people to fit into the mold they have for marriage. Nothing else will do! This sounds very much like the extremist Stalinist form of communism and shows how the view of politics as a long line with extreme righties at one end and extreme lefties at the other end is wrong: the true diagram would be a circle where the extremists are sitting quite close to each other. That's why they often jump from one end to the other so easily.

And social engineering can be so much fun! I knew it would only be a matter of time before they would legislate that all right-minded people would be forced to have litters as a condition for marriage (though the question is begged: if divorce is wrong, and the deliberately childless couple is wrong, then what do you do with the deliberately childless marriage?).

Via the recently cleansed snark gland of T-Bogg.