To: Charles Wickman
I have many friends and acquaintances who are gay, and I respect them all as people. By and large, the gays I know contribute to society and are not interested in a political agenda--they are not "in your face" queers.
But what you propose, gay "marriage" is impossible.
The fact is that sexual activity is ordained toward childbearing and raising children in a familial environment. That's why the genders were engineered the way they are.
You've attempted to "make points" by pointing out this society's failures and anomalies, and then saying "well, if Bobby and Sue can fornicate/get divorced/prevent conception, then gays can marry..." Wrong. A false premise argument--producing a false conclusion.
It is irrelevant that the Enron management was composed of a bunch of crooks when considering accounting entries at, say, ExxonMobil. Right action, founded on right understanding of moral law, is what IS relevant.
Your relative's situation is difficult for you--and likely even more so for him. But that doesn't mean that his difficulty should militate erasure of the natural law, nor accord him the benefits rightly-ordered societies have conferred on married couples.
195 posted on
06/05/2005 6:11:51 AM PDT by
ninenot
(Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
To: ninenot
Your relative's situation is difficult for you--and likely even more so for him. But that doesn't mean that his difficulty should militate erasure of the natural law, nor accord him the benefits rightly-ordered societies have conferred on married couples.
My daughter's situation is difficult for her and her partner.
They have lived together for several years and want to make their relationship official. They want to receive the same benefits that other married couples receive (tax filings, insurance policies, etc.). They want to get married.
As a family, we have talked about it many times. For them it is not an excuse to be promiscuous (that's an insulting suggestion frankly), they are in a monogamous relationship. Their sexual activity is an expression of their love, they simply lack the ability to conceive a child.
Although they are researching ways around that.
If they have to raise my grandchild out of wedlock, I will be disappointed,
but I have to accept their decision and the circumstances that force them to raise my grandchild out of wedlock.
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