Posted on 02/17/2004 5:48:59 AM PST by JesseHousman
Legalization of same-sex marriage would be a seismic event across this culture. Nothing would ever be the same. Every young child asks his parents, "Can boys [or girls] get married to each other"? If the answer changes from "no" to "yes," homosexuality would have then achieved equal status with heterosexual conduct and marriage. This equivalence would be taught in schools, observed in the workplace and eventually imposed even on churches.
If the answer becomes "yes" there will doubtless be a dramatic increase in the incidence of homosexuality. Sexual arousal is a mystical thing, subject to conditioning. How else can one explain bisexuality, transsexuality, or those who migrate from one orientation to another? We should not underestimate the power of continued Hollywood marketing of homosexuality, the human drive for pleasure and official government approval to mold behavior in this area.
And same-sex marriage would not work. It might seem like a benign idea that would lead to more stability in homosexual relationships -- among people who, after all, are "born that way." But there is no evidence that homosexuality is genetically determined. Such relationships are inherently dysfunctional because we are not made that way. We all know that sometimes heterosexual marriage does not work either, but at least it can work and certainly provides the ideal matrix for raising children.
Moreover, it is doubtful that most homosexuals really want marriage. The mind-set appears to be abandonment of restraint, not fidelity or acceptance of a different restraint such as lifelong homosexual marriage.
By the time it is proved that same-sex marriages don't work, irreparable damage will have been done to traditional marriage, which has already been weakened by divorce and extramarital cohabitation. Damage will be compounded by the ramifications of same-sex marriage. As Georgia law presently stands, pedophilic homosexual marriages would immediately be legal if same-sex marriage were instituted today. A 50-year-old man or woman could marry a 16-year-old (and in some cases younger) boy or girl. And the very same sham constitutional privacy arguments used by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will be, and in some cases already have been, made for legalization of incestuous and polygamous or group marriages (including same-sex, opposite sex and bisexual varieties).
How about two men and three women? By the time all of this comes to fruition, the whole concept of marriage will be meaningless for all of us and it will be impossible to repair the damage.
Moreover, our democracy will be shattered if judges, our black-robed masters, are allowed to continue using the pretense of constitutional construction to impose their personal social agendas, without regard to the wishes of the majority.
The only solution, apart from a revolt against the judicial oligarchs, is a constitutional amendment. We must act soon.
George M. Weaver is an Atlanta attorney.
If they were decent people then they wouldn't be homosexuals. At best, they have been able to pass themselves off as 'decent' so far.
My wife used to say the same sort of things as you were because she worked with many homosexual men. She began to realize that I was right after overhearing many of the conversations that they would have with each other. They clearly were presenting a different face to their straight co-workers.
One tidbit that really made me laugh was their fascination with the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. Some of them had seen it as many as 8 times when it was still in the theaters. Turns out, they loved to imagine they there were Bell. Maybe they figured the Beast would be too hard up to care?
I didn't say it but I'll still answer why I don't like it. They represent Godless sin. To be openly gay is to defy God. It is also to defy him is a perverted way. As has been said many times, we are all sinners, but to flaunt your sin is a very different thing.
My 17 yearold daughter is working at a resturaunt and there is a sodomite that also works there. The other day he thought it would be funny to rub frosting on her face. She cried in the bathroom for 15 minutes.
That is not my belief.
I was watching FNC last night and one guest (who was gay and opposed gay marriage) of Bill O'Reilly said that in Denmark (which legalized Gay marriage in 1989), marriage is a dying institution. I found out that 60% of first borns are born out of wedlock!
Sounds like assault to me. Call the police and report this assault on a minor.
I'll warn you now, though, the pro-homo cheerleaders that occasionally pop-up here on Free Republic attempt to dismiss the rising tide of these facts by attacking the author(s) or the source(s) publishing them. Of course, that's becoming meaningless as more and more sources confirm and document these findings.
But I guess we shouldn't expect anything very rational from a group of folks who keep mistaking an exit for an entrance. ;-)
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