Ethics

Bad Catholic Argument Against Gay Marriage

By Ed Brayton

Deacon Keith Fournier -- I don't know if this is the same Keith Fournier who is an attorney with the American Center for Law and Justice -- has a very badly reasoned article at Catholic Online making a novel argument against gay marriage. He declares homosexuality to be a "disordered appetite" and offers this as a reason not to allow gays to get married. The stupidity begins from the very first sentence:

The news is filled with efforts through legislation or the use of the courts to undermine marriage by expanding its definition to somehow include homosexual partnerships.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).