Marriage is so gay, should I get one?

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That's the issue with irony. If you don't get it then it will be very confusing. It can be a wonderfully subtle form of humour tho'.

It isn't equating a choice with a natural tendency. It is throwing in to the light the fact that one is a choice and one is not. Its intention is to jar, to make the reader think.

Here is another example of irony that Fox News did not get a couple of years ago. A Humanist/Atheist group in the US paid for and put up billboard adverts giving a positive message about not believing in a God aimed mainly at converting Christians. There was a big hoo-haa in the media about it, then someone stole the posters. The atheists complained loudly about the theft, then paid for a set of replacement posters that quoted Exodus (specifically, one of the Ten Commandments) that read "Thou shalt not steal." They added their organisations logo to the bottom of the poster so it was obvious where it came from and then the Christians got all up in arms about it. Fox News covered the continuation of the story and asked several times "Why did they use a quote form the bible? They are atheists, they don't believe in the bible. Why didn't they come up with their own slogan?" - They completely missed the point. (Which was that it was obvious that it was a Christian that stole the posters, and so they were not living by their own rules.) The irony was totally lost on them. I thought it was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.

To put it in a nutshell it was about hypocrisy.