When FMA supporters start talking about how the institution of marriage must be “protected” from same sex couples who wish to enter into it, I just have to ask The Question, “Specifically how will the secular, legal recognition of same sex marriage harm society and the institution of marriage?”

No one who supports the FMA (and/or similiar oppressive legislation) appears to be able to provide a clear answer to The Question. Sure, they’ve got their HIV/AIDS statistics, the spectre of NAMBLA and homosexual pedophiles, Leviticus 18:22 and expressions of disgust with certain sex acts they sometimes graphically imagine gay men consenting to enjoy with one another in private. However, while all of those facts and figures, media-induced paranoid delusions, out-of-context Bible quotes and expressions of disgust might explain how some people rationalize their support for the FMA, they do not answer The Question.

Rejecting the subtrefuge of statistics and Scripture and continuing to press FMA supporters for a simple and concise answer to The Question often garners the exasperated cop-out along the lines of, “Well, if I have to explain it to you, you’ll never understand.” Which essentially means that those of us who believe that same sex marriage is a right that should be recognized in a free and secular nation will never understand their opposition to same sex marriage because we are not uncomfortable with the fact that some people are homosexual.