It’s time we acknowledge that conservative (Republican) efforts to ban same-sex marriage are just another type of eugenics. The history of the 20th-century is full of examples of majorities that tried to deter or prevent “undesirable” minority groups from having families. The mentally ill, the mentally disabled, the physically deformed, the congenitally diseased, etc., have all been victims of majority efforts to ban them from having families. Likewise, today, conservatives don’t have public support to sterilize homosexuals or otherwise prevent them from genetically reproducing, so they are trying to do the next closest thing: ban homosexuals from having families. It is eugenics, pure and simple. Eugenics: the control of mating for the explicit purpose of including or excluding particular types of individuals from the population.
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