Seth Gruber, host of The Seth Gruber Show, recently wrote that the United States should overturn the Supreme Court case that legalized marriage equality because it allows pedophiles to “buy sperm & egg” in order to create newborns that they can sexually abuse.

“’Gay marriage’ is fundamentally anti-human. It’s not procreative,” Gruber wrote to his over 25,000 followers in a July 7 post on X, the social media site owned by billionaire neo-Nazi transphobe Elon Musk.

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“For lesbians, it dehumanizes men by treating them as mere sperm banks,” he continued. “For gay dudes, it dehumanizes women by treating them as walking rent-a-wombs.”

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“For the pedos, ‘gay marriage’ was a HUGE gift because it redefined parenthood from 2 opposite sex couples who created the child to literally anyone, so now pedos can buy sperm & egg, rent a womb, and go home with a baby that they intend to sexually abuse,” he claimed.

Gruber is completely wrong in his assertion. The Supreme Court’s 2015 legalization of same-sex marriage didn’t “redefine” parenthood — it merely said that two consenting adults of the same sex can wed because there is no compelling government interest in preventing them from doing so. Furthermore, before 2015, individuals of any sex could try and conceive children through in sperm and egg donors, in vitro fertilization, or surrogates.

Also, bigots like Gruber tried to (and still do) oppose same-sex marriage by claiming that it would lead to increases in child sexual assault. A major evangelical figure also predicted that marriage equality would cause fathers to marry their daughters. There’s no evidence to suggest that either incest or pedophilia increased as a result of legalized same-sex marriage.

Slippery slope arguments like Gruber’s and Dobson’s only work in anti-gay echo chambers populated by people who don’t understand why people fought for same-sex marriage.

There exists a large group of people who want to marry people of the same sex for pretty much the same reasons that people want to marry someone of the opposite sex – to have children, to support their spouses, to have some stability and support for their conjugal relationships. There is no similar population of people who want the same thing in order to have sex with kids, whether their own or someone elses.

In his other posts, Gruber claims that same-sex marriage is “Satanic,” that LGBTQ+-inclusive childrens’ books are “pornographic,” and calls himself a proud Christian Nationalist. Rhetoric like his encourages violence against LGBTQ+ people and their allies, many of whom seek to protect children from genuine harm.

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