In the wake of the recent ruling to uphold the gay marriage ban in Washington, emails have been flying around Microsoft with commentary. One article that caught my eye was an MSNBC piece on the difficulties of being in the heterosexual minority.

Now there’s a lot that one could potentially say about this idiotic article (oops, there I go), but I’m going to try to avoid debasing arguments here. By and large, I’m impartial to what the article has to say, except on the point of the heterosexual people being offended at being called “breeders.” I agree with that sentiment! It is offensive! It suggests a culture similar to the Handmaid’s Tale (wow, that takes me back to high school…), which is pretty spooky.

So what I don’t understand is why government officials like Rep. Phil Gingrey from Georgia get away with saying that the purpose of marriage is procreation. Lots of marriages happen without aims of procreation, or it so happens that procreation isn’t possible. Letting comments like Rep. Gingrey’s go is equivalent to letting someone call you a breeder. (Not to mention Lewis Black’s wonderful commentary disproving the reverse causality: “A one-night stand with no love, a Quaalude and three beers can also bear children.”)

If you consider yourself a heterosexual minority (a premise which has also been thoroughly ridiculed on the Daily Show), I urge you sit and think about the arguments being made on your behalf, and the next time MSNBC comes to you with a crap story premise, maybe you can actually make it worthwhile by placing the blame where it belongs.