This week, the Supreme Court heard challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, bringing the question of legalizing gay marriage to the national forefront. Here are the cases made by same-sex marriage advocates and opponents:

ARGUMENTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE:

Always fun to piss off really religious people

Little lesbian girls around the country would one day get to live their dream of standing together in front of a county clerk’s office employee and working through the bureaucracy to obtain a marriage license

Straight couples could finally unload their unused fondue sets from their marriages

Just to see the look on Rick Perry’s dumb fucking face

Every citizen should have the right to have their special day where young and old alike can awkwardly dance to the “Cha Cha Slide”

The two women from the popular Internet video “Asian and Black Chick Lesbians Dildo Fuck SO HOT Squirting Bitch” could finally get married

Gay wedding episode of Modern Family will help ABC take a big victory in the 18-to-49 demo

Bestowing dignity upon a wrongfully oppressed minority just a nice thing to do

ARGUMENTS AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE:

Leviticus 18:22, Deuteronomy 23:17, Romans 1:26

Could further weaken traditional American values like prejudice, intolerance, and hatred

Nation running out of citizens to make second-class

Love is a cruel, vicious demoness no man should have thrust upon his person

Would successfully prevent the erosion of the immaculate, utterly flawless American family

Everything on registry too expensive

Runs against article of U.S. Constitution explicitly barring homosexual marriage

If we let gays marry, what’s to stop people from marrying animals or trees or tables? …Okay, we know this is pretty stupid, but we really needed some more things to fill out this side of the list