Utah's Unimpressive Arguments Against Same Sex Marriage.

In researching another article on LGBT rights, I came across a summary of the arguments the State of Utah's attorneys are using in the fight to uphold their state's constitutional ban of same sex marriage. 

what eye thynk:   I found them interesting, a bit circuitous and not a little ridiculous.  If this is the way other states are arguing their anti-gay marriage cases, it is no wonder so many are falling in federal courts.

Their arguments...

1.  Restricting marriage to one man and one woman would make heterosexual couples act more responsibly when they had sex.  The resulting planned children would receive "optimal parenting."

• So if same sex couples are allowed to get married, Utah wants us to believe that opposite sex couples will suddenly begin acting irresponsibly in the bedroom? And how would this lack of responsibility be defined exactly?  

2. Retaining "the traditional definition of marriage reinforces responsible procreation."

• What do they mean by "responsible procreation?" I wonder how many births to single, heterosexual women have been prevented as a result of the "responsible procreation" supposedly reinforced by Utah's constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage.

3. Government benefits that come with marriage encourage heterosexual couples to form stable families "in which their planned, and especially unplanned, biological children may be raised."

• Ah! "Unplanned biological children!"  I thought they were eliminated via all that new found sexual responsibility.  (See argument #1.)

4. The state cites a "substantial body of social science evidence (confirming) that children generally fare better when reared by their two biological parents in a loving, low-conflict marriage."

• Attorneys arguing for the recognition of same sex marriage countered that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association all found that the same can be said of children raised by same sex parents in a like and loving relationship.

5. State attorneys called these organizations "politically correct trade associations", adding that "We are not ruled by experts." 

• Obviously.