Federal Judge: Gay Marriage Is Bad For The Economy? You Can't Be Serious!

[DonViejo]

DYLAN SCOTT – JULY 3, 2014, 10:13 AM EDT

Kentucky advanced some interesting arguments to defend its ban on gay marriage: The state said it had an "economic interest" in banning the marriages because only opposite-sex marriage leads to procreation, which in turn benefits the economy.

U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II had some choice words for those arguments in his decision Tuesday striking down the ban: They are "not those of serious people."

From Heyburn's decision, posted by the Louisville Courier-Journal:

These arguments are not those of serious people. Though it seems almost unnecessary to explain, here are the reasons why. Even assuming the state has a legitimate interest in promoting procreation, the Court fails to see, and Defendant never explains, how the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage has any effect whatsoever on procreation among heterosexual spouses. Excluding same-sex couples from marriage does not change the number of heterosexual couples who choose to get married, the number who choose to have children, or the number of children they have.

"The state’s attempts to connect the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage to its interest in economic stability and in 'ensuring humanity’s continued existence' are at best illogical and even bewildering," he concluded. The state of Kentucky isn't the only entity pushing that argument, though: former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the same last month.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kentucky-gay-marriage-economy-argument-not-serious

[randys1]

1. Another example of how the bigots cant point to a single reason to be anti Gay marriage

not one, other than their bigoted and incorrect interpretation of a book that is written about unreal invisible people


Revolution is coming, one way or another.

[Louisiana1976]

2. That's right. You can't stop history.

[SummerSnow]

3. Im confused..or frustrated with these bozos.

They say when poor people have children it's bad for the economy.Now they are saying gays are bad for the economy because of reproduction.Even though they adopt children and now the state don't have to care for them.Gays work, pay taxes, but homes cars etc. WTF?