Things that make you go..."WTF--?"

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Listening to NPR's Morning Edition this morning, I heard a report on the President's video address to the National Association of Evangelicals in Colorado, which predictably focused on efforts to make gay marriage illegal.

Now, there are certainly some legitimate arguments against gay marriage. By legitimate, I don't mean that I agree with them (as I don't), but in the sense that they are founded on an actual thought process that one can use to support a rational argument.

Then there are people like Pam Flannery, interviewed in the segment, who said

There will be problems in, you know, in the western world, because then we've broken down the family, we're no longer producing children, and yet in other countries, where there's an agenda to affect America, they are going to be producing children with a agenda to hurt the United States, and so there's a concern, there's a fear there.

To which I went...."Whaaaa---?"

What barren intellectual wasteland produces people like this? What sort of low grade paranoia allows people to think that if we allow same-sex couples to get married, that we as a society will stop producing children, allowing our enemies to outbreed us? I admit that as arguments go, it's hard to refute, if only because the sheer ludicrousness of the approach tends to leave anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ speechless and unable to defend themselves.

Someone isn't making a lot of sense here. And I don't think it's me.

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Well, in point of fact our enemies *are* outbreeding us, no matter how fundamentalist our society gets. Of course so are most of our friends. Except for western Europe, the world in general is outbreeding us at a fairly impressive rate. Since it already outnumbers us by rather a lot, I fail to see the point in worrying.