Well, you can say that because you don't regard compulsory marriage as the only frail mechanism propping up civilization. Card does. When people like him say gay marriage is a "threat to marriage," they don't mean the specific marriage of OSC and Kristin, or Barak and Michelle, or Barb and Seth -- they mean that not continuing to compel all people to enter monogamous, heterosexual, child-bearing relationships is dangerous to society as a whole.
That's right, he hates you, too. You do not participate in the "reproductive cycle of life," and you are a living, breathing advertisement of the fact that in our society, having children is optional, a matter of personal preference. And Card can't bear the idea that families should have anything to do with personal preference. He thinks there's one way to do it and one way only -- he's referred to everything other than Mom, Dad, and their kids as "mere groupings of people," undeserving of the right to be called families at all.
Gay marriage -- like at-will divorce, like single parenthood, and like selfish heathens such as yourself -- *are* a threat to Card's reality, because what he favors is bringing every possible mechanism of the church, state, and society to bear to force us into his particular vision of marriage. The more people refuse to agree with him that his particular vision of marriage should be compulsory, the more people will certainly opt out of it (and have been opting out of it, and are, and will continue to do so). That's what he's afraid of: not that it will harm him and Kristen, but that it will harm his ability to mandate "marriage" as he defines it on other people whether they like it or not.
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That's right, he hates you, too. You do not participate in the "reproductive cycle of life," and you are a living, breathing advertisement of the fact that in our society, having children is optional, a matter of personal preference. And Card can't bear the idea that families should have anything to do with personal preference. He thinks there's one way to do it and one way only -- he's referred to everything other than Mom, Dad, and their kids as "mere groupings of people," undeserving of the right to be called families at all.
Gay marriage -- like at-will divorce, like single parenthood, and like selfish heathens such as yourself -- *are* a threat to Card's reality, because what he favors is bringing every possible mechanism of the church, state, and society to bear to force us into his particular vision of marriage. The more people refuse to agree with him that his particular vision of marriage should be compulsory, the more people will certainly opt out of it (and have been opting out of it, and are, and will continue to do so). That's what he's afraid of: not that it will harm him and Kristen, but that it will harm his ability to mandate "marriage" as he defines it on other people whether they like it or not.
Which it will.