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Watch: Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh invoke Martians in wildly inaccurate rant against same-sex marriage
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Right-wing podcasters Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh are really upset over the United States Senate’s passage of an amendment that required the federal government to recognize same-sex marriage. On Wednesday’s edition of The Ben Shapiro Show on The Daily Wire, the two men discussed why religion is not the only reason to oppose legal unions between two people of the same gender.
But neither of them actually made a case outside of accusing “liberals” of trying to box “conservatives” into a corner over the issue. Instead, the pair bantered about why they believe that marriage is essential to procreation, which it is not, and why supporters of marriage equality are endangering the future of the human species.
Shapiro:
Yeah I mean, one of the things that they’re pretending this bill does is ‘protect religious institutions from having to celebrate or solemnize a same-sex marriage.’ Religious liberty already protects that under the Constitution of the United States. Instead, it apparently adds a rule of construction, saying the bill by itself would not deny tax-exempt status licensing, grants, and contracts ‘not arising from a marriage.’ But it doesn’t do anything to actually address the problem with this particular issue.
I mean, it’s a really poorly-written amendment by [Senator] Mitt Romney [R-Utah], particularly [Senator] Susan Collins [R-Maine] as well. There’s another amendment that’s been proposed to this called the First Amendment Defense Act – proposed by [Senator] Mike Lee [R-Utah] – I noticed they’re not voting on that. But putting aside the rule of construction, the thing that’s really amazing to me is that it is now, apparently, the law of the land and societal rule that the only rationale that you could possibly have for saying that a marriage is between a man and a woman is because you’re a Christian, or a Jew, or a Muslim. That’s really the only reason at all. That the only reason – we’ll allow you to have these crazy beliefs so long as you can show that they’re crazy beliefs, so long as you can show that the reason you believe a marriage is between a man and a woman is because you read it in a book, and because you really believe the book – they keep saying sincere religious belief. I don’t even know how you measure sincere religious belief. Are we going to, like, now monitor how often you go to church, or to synagogue, or whether you keep Kosher, or whether you take communion in order to determine your sincere –
