Getting married and being allowed to get stoned on pot aren’t things you would normally feel the need to conflate, but gay marriage opponents have been doing just that, using it as part of their slippery slope, harm to society arguments, to suggest the two seemingly disparate things are actually very similar.
It’s also something that’s been used in the media, with articles about one of these issues, drawing comparisons to the other.
Now Brad Pitt is here to tell them to stop, as while he’s for both marriage equality and finding a new way to deal with drugs, he doesn’t think the two things have much to do with one another. Talking to MTV, he says, “Equality, absolutely, that’s what defines us. It’s what makes us great. If it doesn’t sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that’s us. We’re equal. But what’s curious to me is how the two are always linked together. I don’t understand that. I do believe that we should be responsible for our own choices in talking about the drug laws, and that the drug war is an ultimate failure and that the billions and billions of dollars that we’ve committed to it, there’s got to be a better way. I don’t believe in incarceration over education — anyways, don’t get me started. But there’s real damage to drugs; that is not the same as with gay marriage. Since the last round [of elections], they’ve been linked in every article. I find that curious.”
So there, Brad Pitt says they’re different, so anyone who keeps trying to merge the two had better stop now!
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