CV NEWS FEED // Critics who warned that legalizing same-sex marriage would lead to a slippery slope of disastrous outcomes for society were largely proven right over the past couple of decades, observers have recently pointed out.
In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges imposed a progressive redefinition of marriage nationwide.
In the years leading up to the landmark decision, a chorus of conservatives argued that the legalization of “gay marriage” would have vastly negative consequences throughout society.
Supporters of redefining marriage almost universally dismissed these claims as paranoia.
This past week, the nonprofit public policy organization America 2100 made a series of posts to X (formerly X) showing that, nearly a decade after Obergefell, its critics have been vindicated.
The group analyzed some of the talking points used by proponents of so-called “marriage equality” in past decades, including “It’s just two people getting married,” “They’re not going to indoctrinate your kids,” and “This doesn’t affect you personally.”
“You’ve heard all these lines before,” America 2100 wrote. “But here’s the thing: Every single conservative fear about gay marriage came true.”
“For years, when conservatives worried that gay marriage could lead to things like polyamory or polygamy, the Left scoffed,” the group continued.
America 2100 noted that “LGBT outlets like The Advocate regularly ‘debunked’ the claim with stories” in their reportage ahead of the Obergefell decision.
The group referred to one Advocate headline from May 2015 – one month before the Supreme Court redefined marriage – which stated: “Sorry Ben Carson, Marriage Equality Won’t Lead to Polygamy.”
However, just eight months later, The Advocate promoted the trend of “polyamory,” a recently-popularized term used by LGBTQ activists to mean relationships that needed only the very loosening of the definition of marriage that Obergefell provided to make polygamy a real possibility.
In the January 2016 article titled “Polyamory By the Numbers,” the Advocate reported: “polyamory seems suddenly to be everywhere – and very present in the public consciousness,” America 2100 noted.
The Advocate article continued to casually report:
When the Supreme Court extended marriage equality to same-sex couples in all 50 states, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum mused that same-sex marriage might soon lead to marriages of three people or more. Polyamory.
Also known as “consensual non-monogamy,” polyamory comes in a number of flavors, including swinging, polyfidelity, open relationships, and relationship anarchy.
“Now the recent marriage of three women in Brazil has some activists wondering, ‘Is polyamory next?’” the article’s author asked.
“Exact numbers for individuals practicing non-monogamy can be maddeningly hard to come by,” the 2016 article added. “But most researchers estimate that a full 4-5 percent of Americans participate in some form of ethical non-monogamy.”
The eight-year-old piece cited a report that noted: “sexually non-monogamous couples in the United States number in the millions … These millions include poly couples, swinging couples, gay male couples, and other sexually non-monogamous couples.”
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In a subsequent X post, America 2100 also showed how critics of “gay marriage” were proved right when they asserted that its legalization and acceptance would lead to a mass rollback of religious liberty.
“In 2015, [Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL] warned that ‘we are at the water’s edge of the argument that mainstream Christian teaching is hate speech,’” America 2100 wrote:
He was roundly mocked by liberals.
The Daily Beast accused him of a “pathetic persecution complex.”
“But Rubio was obviously correct,” America 2100 continued. “Almost immediately after the Left won on gay marriage, they launched a coordinated campaign to persecute religious Americans who still believed in the traditional definition of marriage.”
“And in many cases, the courts…just let them do it,” the group went on:
The victims of this campaign are real people, with real names and faces. Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado, politely refused to custom-bake a cake endorsing gay marriage. As a result, he’s been in court for more than a decade, and has lost 40% of his business.
“After years of mocking Christians who worried they would lose their rights, the Left turned on a dime,” America 2100 noted.
The group pointed out a pair of 2015 headlines, one calling for the end of tax exemptions for churches and the other for the end of the Clinton-era Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) – which put the term “religious freedom” in scare quotes.
Both articles were published less than three days after the Obergefell ruling.
“This one was obvious from the very beginning,” America 2100 continued. “During the arguments for Obergefell … Obama’s solicitor general was forced to admit that the ruling could cause Christian institutions to lose their tax-exempt status.”
Furthermore, America 2100 indicated that the longtime assertion that LGBTQ activists are “coming for your kids” was also “dismissed as a ‘trope’” by “gay marriage” proponents.
“In the wake of Obergefell, Media Matters warned journalists not to cite ‘debunked horror stories; such as the idea that ‘public schools will be forced to teach children about same-sex marriage,’” America 2100 wrote. “[D]o we really even have to explain why conservatives were right about this one?”
“Many LGBT activists sought to frame gay marriage in moderate terms,” America 2100 continued. “‘Gay couples just want to be like us,’ they told us. Some even made a ‘conservative case’ for gay marriage.”
“But marriage was only ever a stepping stone on the path to an even more fundamental war,” the group emphasized. “After destroying ‘gender roles,’ the Left moved on to the very concept of gender.”
“With transgenderism, the Left has now arrived at the final frontier: Biological distinction itself,” America 2100 emphasized:
Today, the Left seeks to not only destroy the idea of differences between men and women, but to artificially dismantle the structural evidence that those distinctions ever existed at all — evidence that is written into the basic composition of the human body itself.
“It was never about ‘tolerance’ and ‘inclusion,’ It was about fundamentally transforming America,” the group concluded.
A couple of years ago, social media users unearthed a now-infamous pie chart made by “gay marriage” proponents back in 2011 – four years before Obergefell.
The chart was titled “What will happen if gay marriage is legalized?”
It communicated that the only thing that would happen would be, “Gay people will get married.”
The other possibilities, “A third World War will break out,” “Various plagues – locusts, frogs, etc. – will erupt,” “Schools will begin teaching kids how to have gay sex,” and “The terrorists will win,” were purposefully not filled in.
“[T]he only thing on this list that *didn’t* happen to any significant extent was gays getting married,” an X user remarked in 2022.
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