So I suppose this article is flamebait, and honestly, there are very few issues I could care less about than the gay marriage debate.\u00a0 But like with a lot of issues, it seems like things get so heated that people tend to forget certain baseline facts when they launch their tirades.\u00a0 So I just want to clarify this one fact:<\/p>\n
Conception requires a man and a woman.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s clarify this.\u00a0 Anybody can love anybody.\u00a0 Anybody can associate with anybody.\u00a0 You can love men, women, your pets, your plants, heck I know a scientist who cries when her petri dish cultures collapse.\u00a0 And I certainly don\u2019t care what other people do with their lives.\u00a0 Give people who want to marry\/cohabit legal standing, provided there\u2019s no abuse or coercion involved.<\/p>\n
But, to make a new human baby, you need a human man\u2019s semen and you need a human woman\u2019s egg.\u00a0 You need the two to connect, and you need a woman to gestate that fertilized egg for nine months.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are all sorts of technological ways to do this, like a third-party sperm donor, or a third-party egg donor and\/or fourth-party woman to gestate your fertilized egg for you. (you decode that last part)<\/p>\n
But barring any help from technology, the way it happens is a man inserts his erect penis into a woman’s vagina and squirts his semen at her cervix. \u00a0It then needs to connect with a fertile egg of hers, which she then needs to gestate until she gives birth.<\/p>\n
Whether the man and woman are actually in love, or are married, is irrelevant here. \u00a0I just want to make sure we understand this fact.\u00a0 If a man and a man marry, or a woman and a woman marry, they still can\u2019t conceive kids with each other.\u00a0 They need to do an end-run around this inconvenient biological truth to procreate.<\/p>\n
Maybe the reason people apply this to marriage is that it\u2019s supposed to be an institution that revolves around conception.<\/p>\n
But even that is irrelevant. \u00a0The relevant question I’m asking is this: is it possible to point out the fact that a baby comes from a male’s sperm and a female’s egg, without coming off like a bigot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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