In what might be the craziest argument made against gay marriage this month, concerned heterosexual Kansas couple Phillip and Sandra Unruh have filed a motion to intervene in the case challenging the state's gay marriage ban – insisting that allowing same-sex couples to marry would literally lead to a "taking of their property rights in marriage without due process of law."
The brief states, in part:
The extension of marriage to same sex relationships inflicts profound harm on the Unruhs. For the court to say that from this day forward marriage in Kansas must be extended to a same sex couple is and for ever will be deeply disturbing to the Unruhs and undoubtedly to those that cared enough to pass an amendment to protect it, a departure from the joy and celebration normally associated with the word marriage. Disturbed, not because of bigotry, but out of solemn respect for what marriage is, what it has meant to them and to society in general. Marriage is perhaps the single most valuable institution society has ever had. The standards established by marriage and its exclusive nature enjoyed by the Unruhs can not be ignored or impaired without fundamental civil rights of the Unruhs being disturbed and married people being discriminated against….a ruling extending marriage to same sex relationships would violate the Unruhs' right to equal protection under the law by the Court's failure to protect marriage and support the right of Kansas citizens to codify its implicit meaning.
Other portions of the brief mention Bible verses and "responsible procreation, effective parenting, and the desire to proceed cautiously in this evolving area" as reasons for keeping Kansas' gay marriage ban in place.
Read the brief yourself and marvel at the absurdity below, via Equality Case Files.
[h/t/ jmg]
