The new anti-marriage equality argument: it would promote
“feminist marriage”  PhotobucketLet’s be real: opponents of
marriage equality have been known to use some shameful tactics
to make their case.  They’ve used weak analogies involving water
and beer. They’ve subtly and not-so-subtly compared
homosexuality with bestiality and pedophilia.  They’ve suggested
that LGBTQ folks don’t make good parents. They deliberately
race-baited during the California Prop 8 debate, and have
invented LGBTQ ties to Nazism out of thin air. They’ve even gone
so far as to criticize LGBTQ people for rocking too much rainbow
schwag.  But the latest argument against marriage equality is a
new one, even for the creative anti-equality minds that brought
you such logically fallacious classics as the “gay marriage is a
slippery slope” argument and the dizzyingly circular “marriage
is between a man and a woman” definition.  In a new column,
David Usher, president of the Center for Marriage Policy, a
right-wing group endorsed by Phyllis