marriage

same-sex marriage

is not in fact about dignity (pace justice kennedy), and dignity is just an accident of marriage which really is only about benefits and burdens.

Bursch stuck to his argument, saying that the dignity of marriage is just an accident. That marriage is really just about 'benefits and burdens, but not necessarily.'

is ultimately the suggestion that marriage and children don't have anything to do with each other, and would result in more children being born out of wedlock. In short, gay marriage makes straight people have random babies.

But the states are continuing to cling to this idea that marriage has to be about the ability to reproduce. According to John Bursch, the states' attorney, granting marriage equality for gays and lesbians would mean 'marriage and children don't have anything to do with each other,' and that means we would have 'more children outside of marriage.' In other words, gay marriage makes straight people have random babies. Okay, sure. This is the same argument that the anti-gay side made two years ago in the Windsor case. And how did that work out for them' Not so well. Only Alito and Thomas signed on to that reasoning with Windsor. The other seven didn't buy it.

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