The Growing Hysteria and Idiocy of Anti-Gay "Christians"

As the tidal wave of rulings striking down bans on same sex marriage continues, both the extremism and idiocy of the self-anointed protectors of "traditional marriage" continues to increase.  Leading the chorus are many of the same tired, neurotic nutcases who make a living peddling hatred.  Mat Staver, founder of the extreme Liberty Council (and dean of Liberty University's so-called law school) would have his sheep like listeners believe that gay marriage is about to bring the end of Western Civilization.  Here's a sampling of his rant:

Mathew D. Staver, dean of the Liberty University School of Law, said that efforts to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex “marriage” would be like trying to re-define the law of gravity, adding that, if it were tried, it would mark “the beginning of the end of Western civilization.”

“We’ve never been in this situation before,” Staver said in a speech at the American Decency Association 2014 Summer Conference in Grand Rapids, Mich. “We will not be able to escape the coercive nature of this issue. It is cataclysmic in its change-effect. It is, I believe, ultimately the beginning of the end of Western civilization, if we adopt this as a country.”

 Not to be out done, NOM's Brian Brown bizarrely equates same sex marriage as trying to create a dining room set out of two tables:

Suppose you took a table and a chair and together referred to them both as chairs. In that instance, the two things really would be different—and by calling them the same thing, you would have made the term "chair" meaningless.

Calling a table a chair does damage to the meaning of the word "chair"—and it does no service to our understanding of either tables or chairs. It is thus injurious to our wisdom and knowledge on three counts, and reduces our ability to reason at all.

So it goes with marriage. Calling something "marriage" that is not marriage damages our public notion of marriage, in multiple ways. It neither serves society as a whole, nor does it ultimately serve society's members because it reduces their ability to make any reasonable or legal distinctions.

Blogger friend Jeremy Hooper sums up the insanity well:

Unlike nearly half of our states, twenty-nine consecutive courts (and many before that), the federal government, and a growing majority of the American public, Brian Brown has taken upon himself to determine that a civil contract between two loving and committed adults can only be called a marriage if the union has the distribution of penises and vaginas that he finds proper. And now he will use dining furniture to make his point on behalf of the discrimination to which he has pledged his career and legacy

Staver and Brown both need serious mental health interventions.