elsewhere: maryland's highest court says gays can't marry

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Grim Amusements: Maryland's highest Court upholds Md. gay marriage ban:

...Because of the state's "legitimate interest" in fostering procreation and traditional family structures. Yes. Quite. Because people, as a group, find it so difficult to procreate when they're not married, don't they? And all those people outside traditional family structures, the state has no interest in their welfare at all. Let 'em all die. Yes, even the children, too; what the hell are they doing outside a traditional family? Ain't they got no values? [...] the gender discrimination aspects would seem to be plain on the face. Oh, but that whole fostering babymaking thing, yes, I see. Gay people don't have children, therefore, the state has no interest in them. (That gay people don't have children would come as a surprise to something over half the actual gay people that I know. Apparently, their children are a figment of our collective imagination. Who knew? And since they're only figments, then clearly, they don't need whatever security and structure that traditional marriage would provide that is such a benefit to the nonfigmentary children of straight people.)