Slate.com's LGBT issues writer Mark Joseph Stern thinks he has come to a logical conclusion for pro-lifers when it comes to gay marriage: one can be both anti-abortion and pro-homosexual marriage because one believes in "the dignity and equality of all human life."

Stern heaps a whole new level of leftist-logic on that fire: gay marriage should be legalized to stop abortions. Stern's argument is that homosexual couples "very rarely need abortions," but if they are forced into "straight relationships," they will likely abort the resulting babies. Therefore, in Stern's cranium, the anti-abortion crowd should "champion" gay marriage.

Besides, Stern furthers, it is useless to try and stop this inevitability because younger Christians are beginning to abandon the tenets of their more conservative Christian forebears in realizing this "obvious compatibility." "Every day," Stern writes, "more and more young Christians are coming to this realization."

Here is Stern's opening paragraph from his article:

To my mind, it has always seemed perfectly consistent to support gay marriage but oppose abortion. I don’t personally agree with the distinction at the heart of this dichotomy, but it’s still a pretty rational one: You can support gay marriage because you believe in the dignity and equality of all human life—and oppose abortion for the same stated reasons. Besides, married gay couples will very rarely need abortions, whereas gay people pressured into straight relationships can and do. For the anti-abortion crowd, gay marriage should be a win-win.

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