Posted on 05/23/2008 9:12:25 AM PDT by The_Republican
The reason that marriage came into being as a civil/legal/cultural institution was to “legitimize” the product of procreation, children. It was to regularize and provide a host of obligations and rights for the parents, children and the rest of society to ensure and enhance the life prospects of children. Marriage provided a concrete commitment to the children that would ensue from that coupling expressed via the formal commitmtment of the marriage bond. Thus the essence of marriage is a male and female couple formally resolving to raise children, whether or not children actually result. Even infertile or elderly couples do not change the principle of marriage in essence, only in the incidental particular of the couple involved.
No matter how you wish to phrase it, “gay marriage” can NEVER have the value to civilization that heterosexual marriage can, because in every case they cannot procreate without the assistance of a third party. (Note that I said in EVERY case) Marriage, strictly speaking is not even about love. Ultimately it is about the children that result from nearly EVERY marriage.
The Cultural Marxists hand is very evident in this new assault upon the most foundational element of Western civilization, the hererosexual 2 parent family as they seek to make the sham of homosexual marriage equivalent to the heterosexual one.
“How does this stop a straight couple from getting married and having kids? How does this undermine the many legal and cultural protections we give maried couples”?
Notice as to how “gay marriage” has been instituted in the 2 states that have it. By judicial fiat against the expressed will of the people via statute or ballot referendum.
If the gay activist lobby can convince their legislatures to redine marriage to include same sex couples, than I would accept such a redefinition as being legally valid; though devoid of a sound sociological basis. They haven’t succeded so far, because they have not managed to reeducate enough of us via their cultural Marxist college professors while subverting cenuries of religious teaching thru gay activist wings within the various religious orders.
What is presently at stake is our small “r” republican form of government opposed to a judicial oligarchy substituting their personal policy preferences for duly constitutional law as expressed by the people thru their legislatures.
In California, the State Legislature has TWICE passed laws making same sex marriage legal. Gov. Arnold vetoed the law both years saying he thought the Supreme Court or a referendum should decide the issue, not the Legislature.
This guy’s an idiot.
Anyone who thinks 2 guys or 2 girls can be married is in the same league as those who think they can marry a knothole in a fence.
It simply isn’t possible. It is blind to the fact that 2 halves have the potential to make a whole.
A guy and a fence will never do that. Neither will a guy and a guy or a girl and a girl.
That is true. The3 governor retained the right of veto which he exercised. The people, distresssed over what their legislature had done, utilized their ballot referendum right as a corrective. Up until the obscene California Supreme court decision, the republican process was working properly.
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