Conservative scholars: Legalizing same-sex marriage will cause 900,000 abortions

[Morphine Prince 109,664]

 

As the Supreme Court prepares to take up same-s-x marriage next week, conservative scholars have produced a last-ditch argument to keep the scourge of homos-xual unions from spreading across the land: Gay marriage kills.

They’re saying that legalizing same-s-x marriage will cause 900,000 abortions.

The logic is about as obvious as if they had alleged that raising the minimum wage would increase the frequency of hurricanes. If anything, you’d think that more same-s-x marriages would mean more adoptions.

But comes now Gene Schaerr, unsuccessful lawyer for Utah in that state’s case against same-s-x marriages, to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of “100 scholars of marriage.”

“On the surface, abortion and same-s-x marriage may seem unrelated,” Schaerr acknowledged in a post on the Heritage Foundation Web site in advance of a presentation he made to the conservative think tank Monday. But “the two are closely linked in a short and simple causal chain.”

To wit: Legalizing same-s-x marriage devalues marriage and causes fewer heteros-xual couples to marry, which leads to a larger number of unmarried women, who have abortions at higher rates than married women. As a result, Schaerr wrote, “nearly 900,000 more children of the next generation would be aborted as a result of their mothers never marrying. This is equal to the entire population of the cities of Sacramento and Atlanta combined.”

Case closed! Or at least it would be, if Schaerr’s “causal chain” were real. He freely acknowledged that he had no cause-and-effect proof when I asked him about it at Heritage on Monday.

 “It is still too new to do a rigorous causation a--lysis using statistical methods,” he admitted, saying that he had found only a decline in marriage rates in states that had legalized same-s-x marriage (in fact, marriage rates have declined overall). “The brief doesn’t even attempt to say conclusively that this reduction in marriage rates has been the result of adopting same-s-x marriage,” Schaerr said, though there are “theoretical reasons” such causation might occur.

Full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-new-argument-against-gay-equality-same-s-x-marriage-kills/2015/04/20/9fc509d4-e7a3-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html?tid=HP_opinion?tid=HP_opinion

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

They can't be serious? 

[Katsuki Bakugo 9,788]

why so specific...

[JustPokeHerFace 2,564]

so who's ass was this statistic pulled from? 

[Iwontell 7,312]

There's nothing worse than ppl trying to make their irrational views seem rational...

[Red 99,112]

wut

[The Child 18,997]

"On the surface, abortion and same-s-x marriage may seem unrelated,"

They are unrelated 

[ThisGuyTony 34,905]

 

Legalizing same-s-x marriage devalues marriage and causes fewer heteros-xual couples to marry

What kind of nonsense is this?  

[venusian 4,686]

are people really this ****ing stupid

[Bad Bromance 5,809]

This is the biggest crock of **** I've heard in my life!  Who in their right mind would even fathom to rationalize that the legalization of same-s-x marriages would have anything to do with the other???  Like, what the actual ****??!!  

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

What kind of logic is that? It's like saying ARTPOP underperformed because Gaga broke her hip.

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Full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-new-argument-against-gay-equality-same-s-x-marriage-kills/2015/04/20/9fc509d4-e7a3-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html?tid=HP_opinion?tid=HP_opinion

​Conservative "scholars." 

If marriage is so damn sacred (by the way it was originally designed as a sort of contract - like buying cattle) then why do so many conservatives get divorced? And they do realize "Traditional" marriage involved the man buying as many wives as he could, as well as having s-x with his slaves (often rape) and concubines (another word for s-x slaves). I guess that's what happens when you de-fund educational programs and fail History 101.

[Lion Heart 15,041]

He also speculated that an unemployed man who got his girlfriend pregnant in a state that had legalized same-s-x marriage would be more likely to conclude that “I’m not going to assume these obligations to this woman and this child.”

Wait, what?

[Jan 219]

 

[Disregard 50]

The birth rate is too high anyway. I approve.