You know that silly argument that same-sex marriage harms the institution of marriage?

Pretty dumb, right?  What do they think is going to happen?  If gay people get married, straight married couples will get divorced??? LOL!!!

Well, actually, not so LOL.  Gay marriage could in fact lead to divorce among straight couples.

Or rather, one straight couple.

Who are being total dicks to prove a point:

A Canberra Christian couple who have vowed to divorce if same-sex marriage is legalised may not be able to follow through with their plan due to the legal prerequisites for divorce.

Director of the Lachlan Macquarie Institute and former ACT director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Nick Jensen, said he was prepared to divorce his wife of 10 years in protest if same-sex marriage is legalised by Federal Parliament.

Mr Jensen said he planned to continue living with his wife Sarah and be married “under God”, but divorced in a legal sense.

“It’s not extreme in our eyes, it’s simply a natural consequence of our conscience,” he said.

“When we signed the contract 10 years ago we made a contract with the state about what marriage is, which was husband and wife, fundamental order of creation, part of God’s intimate story for human history, man and woman for the sake of children.

“So if the state then goes and changes the terms of that contract, then that’s something we can no longer partake in, it makes the contract null and void essentially.”

Now, I know nothing of Australian law, but I know enough to know this is among the stupidest things ever said on that continent.

I mean, if you have a contract between the yourself and the guy who is going to paint your house, and *I* have a contract with the same guy to paint *my* house, it doesn’t mean that I have the same house as you, or that we are painting it the same color.  Get my metaphor?

And even if I disagree with your contract with the painter, it sure as hell doesn’t make MY contract “null and void”.

But stupid analogy aside, this stunt is resulting in pretty strong backlack for Nick Jensen.  Even his pro-marriage-equality brother is coming to his defense (“he has a right to speak” and all that).

I certainly agree with Jensen’s right to his anti-equality views, although I don’t find them to be pro-Christian at all.  And frankly, if he’s not enjoying the backlash, he shouldn’t have performed the stunt — a stunt which embraces a very hurtful stance.