[Vision2020] Same sex marriage

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 7/14/2012 10:57 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:
> Legalization of same sex marriage is a foregone conclusion. There is 
> simply no logical or legal reasonings that can be justified to uphold 
> same sex marriage bans.  Case in point is Loving vs Virginia 1967 
> which ended race based restrictions in the United States.  If there 
> can be no restrictions based on race, how can there be restrictions 
> placed on gender?  Both race and gender are predetermined prior to 
> birth.  Checkmate.

Equity, fairness, and justice arguments in favor of same-sex marriage 
have some logical and symmetric attractiveness that encourage their 
acceptance. However, there are more powerful and practical reasons why 
same-sex marriage may eventuate into the standard normal behavior, and 
opposite-sex marriage may become an ever more regulated minority 
relationship.

The more powerful argument in favor of same-sex, that is, 
non-reproductive, marriage is simply that there are too many human 
beings on this planet, and the rate of growth of population is too high 
to be sustainable with the resources we have available, or can possibly 
have available, to allow our current rates of population growth to 
continue without disastrous consequences to ever more widespread areas 
of developed geography.

If reasonably near human generations are to survive without social 
collapse via chaotic, uncontrolled mechanisms, we must, among other 
things, control our population growth. Same-sex marriages may well 
become the usual majority relationship, rather than the less common, and 
population increasing, opposite-sex, legally-recognized relationship.

Recently amended state constitutions need re-amendment to recognize 
undeniable population realities, and to implement what rational, 
non-chaotic controls we are able.

University of Colorado emeritus professor of physics Albert Bartlett has 
been lecturing about the problems of exponential growth for a long time. 
You may have seen his standard lecture on the topic, but if not, here 
are links to a couple versions of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRVijo65W0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrvGDRLT7A&feature=related


Ken
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