Matt Baume takes on presidential candidate Ben Carson on the question of whether allowing gay people to marry will bring out the polygamists and those who want to marry their dogs. Matt's answer: Marriage is a contract. For same-sex couples all that needs to be done is change the gender of one of the parties. The rest of the contract is the same. But for more than two spouses the entire contract would need to be rewritten. For example, during a breakup, who gets custody of whose kids? Who makes next-of-kin decisions at the hospital? If there is no will, who inherits? As for marriage to dogs, this is a contract and dogs can't give consent. The video is 4 minutes.
A report from the University of Mainz in Germany and PlanetRomeo found that four million gay men were victims of physical violence worldwide in 2014. It also determined that 13 million gay men have been banned from their family home, 41 million want to leave their home country, 66 million are not out to parents, 22 million were denied a job, and 7 million are in a straight marriage. This link also has a map of gay happiness index. Norway and Iceland are best, America is on the good side of things, worst is Sudan, Uganda, and Ethiopia. For a bit of perspective, by my calculation based on gays and lesbians being about 3% of the population, there are about 200 million of us in the world.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment