Hell, no. For one thing I don't believe in compelling people to enter arrangements they don't want.
Now, here's where I disagree with the Dems on social issues. I believe traditional arrangements are there for a reason: Because they work the best for most people. A nuclear, heterosexual family is the best arrangement for probably 90% of the population I believe homosexuality is abnormal. I believe multiple partners is abnormal. I believe single parenthood is abnormal.
However, abnormal doesn't mean wrong. Even more, abnormal can be right for a small minority of the population. These abnormal people, as consenting adults, should have the right to freely live their abnormal lives, as long as they don't violate the rights of others, because that is what is right for them.
Tradition has been there because it works for the most people. But people are different so it doesn't work for a few. Those who choose to live abnormal lives are as responsible for recognizing why tradition works. Those who are traditional should give the nontraditional their space.
A nuclear, heterosexual family is the best arrangement for probably 90% of the population I believe homosexuality is abnormal. I believe multiple partners is abnormal. I believe single parenthood is abnormal.
However, abnormal doesn't mean wrong. Even more, abnormal can be right for a small minority of the population. These abnormal people, as consenting adults, should have the right to freely live their abnormal lives, as long as they don't violate the rights of others, because that is what is right for them.
I disagree. POST #56 & #83 and:
A. States Have the Right to Promote the Institution of Heterosexual Marriage
Petitioners invite this Court to view the Texas sodomy statute in a vacuum, ignoring the right of states to promote the institution of heterosexual marriage and how the statute falls within that legislative preference.
[N] o legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self-governing commonwealth, fit to take rank as one of the co-ordinate States of the Union, than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of the family as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilizations.
B. States Have the Right to Regulate Consensual Sexual Conduct
The law "is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing moral choices are to be invalidated under the Due Process Clause, the courts will be very busy indeed." Bowers, 478 U. S. at 196. While governments are "obliged to show equal respect to persons qua persons" they are not obliged to show equal respect "to all of the persons' acts and choices." Robert P. George, MAKING MEN MORAL 102 (1993); see also Dent, supra, at 586 (government may promote or discourage conduct because it believes that the conduct benefits or harms the individual, even if the individual does not agree). Prohibiting behavior deemed unacceptable or immoral is precisely what law does: it limits one's freedom to act in ways that cause harm to the individual or to society.
States are justified in enforcing a societal morality as a means of self-preservation because "social bonds constituted by shared moral beliefs are placed in peril when the law tolerates actions that are generally considered to be wicked." George, supra, at 51-52, 73; see also Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U. S. 560, 575 (1991) (" all human societies have prohibited certain activities not because they harm others but because they are considered immoral"). "Without morality, the foundations of our liberty will crumble, because there will be no moral compass differentiating between right and wrong." Stephen Daniels, Intolerant Tolerance: The Weapon of Moral Relativism at 4 (available at www. ncfpc. org/ policypapers. html); see also George, supra, at 36-37 (" Perhaps every generation must learn for itself that 'private' immoralities have public consequences. . . . It is plain that moral decay has profoundly damaged the morally valuable institutions of marriage and the family, and has, indeed, largely undercut the understandings of the human person, marriage, and the family"). 6
III. DEREGULATING HUMAN SEXUAL RELATIONS WILL ERODE THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
B. Current Strategies to Redefine Sexuality and Marriage