• redalastor
    +6

    I see it as the other way around, saying that marriage is for procreation diminishes my marriage as an heterosexual man.

    I've yet to get an answer for people with that opinion when asked if they want to prevent people who aren't fertile from marrying.

    I keep asking someone expresses that opinion though.

    • jmcs
      +5

      Oh I got one. There was a priest that told me that with heterosexuals couples there can always be a miracle if God wants. The guy seemed very proud of his argument.

      • redalastor
        +6

        Oh wow. And I guess people who don't want kids can always have an accident.

        God seems a bit weaksauce on that one though. Miracles by definition transcend natural laws so he could miracle a baby to a gay couple if he wanted.

      • Kalysta
        +3

        Perhaps that priest needs to be told of parthenogenesis. Throw that into the mix and at least lesbian couples could "miraculously" procreate.

        Also, thanks to the "miracle" of modern science, we can now create babies from 3 people (theoretically 2 women, 1 man). What's to stop a gay couple from going to a fertility clinic and undergoing this with a surrogate? Are they now not technically fertile? Also, you wouldn't even need a third person to splice genes between two lesbians, unless they wanted a boy.

        It's an ingenious argument 50 years ago. But with modern genetic knowledge and fertility science, it doesn't really hold water.