I do plan on getting married and I still plan on being zomg a slut.

see, this is what i love. no reason we can’t de-couple and re-permutate (?) all the options.

I am never getting married but I still do not plan on being ‘zomg a slut!!’.

I do. (*ducks*)

I do plan on getting married and I still plan on being zomg a slut.

I do. (*ducks*)

The fact is that there are plenty of gay couples who already do conduct their relationships in line with the way most people think of opposite-sex marriage.

In a lot of ways, it is like trying to address the “gay people can’t get married because marriage is a religious thing” argument with pointing out that there are respected denominations that have been conducting union ceremonies that they consider in all religious ways equal to marriage for ages now.

It doesn’t address the valid discussion point of whether religion belongs in charge of marriage, because the point of the argument is to highlight the flaw in the argument being addressed.

Whether or not monogamy or promiscuity is good, better, best, etc, is a different discussion. The point at hand is that a lot of people support marriage specifically because it (supposedly) reduces promiscuity among straights who couple up. The question he is asking is “if that is such a good thing for straight people, why are we refusing to allow it to the very people we are accusing of being the worst offenders?”

Personally, I’d be more tweaked about the fact that he is using the gay MALE stereotype as the basis for his refutation. Not that their aren’t promiscuous lesbians or monogamous gay men, but reality does seem to skew the other way.

Pesky stealth lesbians!

Or, you know, to have somebody available when they want a quickie. The constant “wide stance” style scandals make me think that’s the real reason.

yeah but isn’t that second idea total bs? i think even this “unwanted promiscuity” is a little more complicated than not having access to legal marriage.

Or would that be a Tony Award?

There’s a big difference between being promiscuous because you want to and being promiscuous because the option of being monogamous is socially and legally unworkable. I think we can agree that in that situation, promiscuity is a bad thing.

And of course, as has been said, conservatives want gay people to be promiscuous, because it fits their message of hate.