{"id":742,"date":"2009-03-05T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html"},"modified":"2009-03-05T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T11:26:41","slug":"why-gays-should-propose-tighte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gay marriage leads to polygamy which leads to man-on-dog marraige which leads to some very awkward sex with robots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_03\/017152.php\">The Washington Monthly mocks the latest slippery slope argument <\/a>on gay marriage.<br \/>\nReminds me of an idea, though.  If gay marriage opponents fear the slippery slope, why don&#8217;t gay activists offer conservatives a deal: you support gay marriage and we&#8217;ll oppose extending it beyond gays toward dogs and robots &#8212; and, in fact, (more seriously), will support an agenda geared toward reducing the divorce rate in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay marriage leads to polygamy which leads to man-on-dog marraige which leads to some very awkward sex with robots. The Washington Monthly mocks the latest slippery slope argument on gay marriage. Reminds me of an idea, though. If gay marriage opponents fear the slippery slope, why don&#8217;t gay activists offer conservatives a deal: you support&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws - Steven Waldman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws - Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gay marriage leads to polygamy which leads to man-on-dog marraige which leads to some very awkward sex with robots. The Washington Monthly mocks the latest slippery slope argument on gay marriage. Reminds me of an idea, though. If gay marriage opponents fear the slippery slope, why don&#8217;t gay activists offer conservatives a deal: you support&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-03-05T11:26:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"swaldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws - Steven Waldman","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws - Steven Waldman","og_description":"Gay marriage leads to polygamy which leads to man-on-dog marraige which leads to some very awkward sex with robots. The Washington Monthly mocks the latest slippery slope argument on gay marriage. Reminds me of an idea, though. If gay marriage opponents fear the slippery slope, why don&#8217;t gay activists offer conservatives a deal: you support&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html","og_site_name":"Steven Waldman","article_published_time":"2009-03-05T11:26:41+00:00","author":"swaldman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html","name":"Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws - Steven Waldman","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-03-05T11:26:41+00:00","dateModified":"2009-03-05T11:26:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#\/schema\/person\/f14bd19925fcfcd0bd7c74a678fddded"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/why-gays-should-propose-tighte.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why Gays Should Propose Tightening the Divorce Laws"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/","name":"Steven Waldman","description":"Author of 'Founding Faith'","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#\/schema\/person\/f14bd19925fcfcd0bd7c74a678fddded","name":"swaldman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/e7f\/e7f50c10d0832a00d2b7690a72d45b5ex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/e7f\/e7f50c10d0832a00d2b7690a72d45b5ex96.jpg","caption":"swaldman"},"description":"Steven Waldman is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Beliefnet. He's also the author of the Founding Faith: Politics, Providence, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America, which has been published by Random House. Before co-founding Beliefnet in 1999, Waldman was a political journalist, serving as National Editor of U.S. News & World Report and National Correspondent for Newsweek. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, The Atlantic, Slate, and many others.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/author\/swaldman"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}