The next time someone tells you they’re against gay marriage, don’t ask: “Why?”

Ask: “How?”

As in:

• How many divorces have been caused by gay marriage (and don’t forget to ask where they got their numbers)?
• How can gay marriage be so detrimental to the “sanctity of marriage” if one in two marriages, on average, fails (a statistic which has been around for quite a while longer than the idea of gay marriage, by the way)?
• How come there hasn’t been a massive rise in the divorce rate, or a massive decline in the heterosexual marriage rate, in the states where gay marriage is legal?
• How does gay marriage contribute to the decline in our society (a claim which, by the way, is virtually impossible to support since gay marriage hasn’t been around long enough for any data to be collected on it)?
• How has gay marriage damaged the life of the person who is against gay marriage?
• How has gay marriage damaged the lives of anyone, whether they are against gay marriage or not?

Now, this line of questioning is not likely to make any of the people who are against gay marriage very happy. In fact, it will likely make them very angry.

Because they have no answers to the “How” questions.

You will know when you’ve reached the point of walking away when they stop sputtering gibberish as answers to your questions and start spouting Biblical passages.

At that point, politely inform them that you are very capable of reading the Bible for yourself, and that the same God who speaks to them through that Book also speaks to you, and that you firmly believe that you and God can work things out without their help.

Then, just simply walk away.

© 2009, Mac Williams. All rights reserved.

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