{"id":705,"date":"2007-10-22T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2007\/10\/ten-reasons-gay-marriage-is-un-american.html"},"modified":"2007-10-22T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T00:14:00","slug":"ten-reasons-gay-marriage-is-un-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2007\/10\/ten-reasons-gay-marriage-is-un-american.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons Gay Marriage is Un-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this, but there was no attribution to an author.  Still, it&#8217;s pretty funny, in a sad sort of way.  It&#8217;s gotta make Dumbledore glad he&#8217;s British.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.<\/li>\n<li> Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.  <\/li>\n<li> Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. <\/li>\n<li> Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn&#8217;t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can&#8217;t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal. <\/li>\n<li> Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears&#8217; 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed. <\/li>\n<li> Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren&#8217;t full yet, and the world needs more children. <\/li>\n<li> Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.  <\/li>\n<li> Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That&#8217;s why we have only one religion in America. <\/li>\n<li> Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That&#8217;s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children. <\/li>\n<li> Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven&#8217;t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this, but there was no attribution to an author. Still, it&#8217;s pretty funny, in a sad sort of<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2007\/10\/ten-reasons-gay-marriage-is-un-american.html\" title=\"Read Ten Reasons Gay Marriage is Un-American\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}