But it is a threat, because by attacking the institution of marriage it attacks that most basic and natural institution of any society: the family. The very survival of any society depends upon the integrity of the family institution, which itself depends upon the integrity and sanctity of the marital institution. If you destroy a society's understanding of marriage, that society will very shortly collapse from within.
-A8
Well said. I look at it like this (crude language warning!): if two men want to get together in private and touch each other’s privates, I don’t think the law should crminalize it, though it most certainly is a sin. A lot of people seem to be under the impression that that’s what the debate is about. It isn’t about the right to engage in consensual conduct, it is about having the state sanction it, the church bless it, and both promote it, and in doing so overturn millenia old social institutions because a small percentage of emotionally disturbed men want to get together and touch each other’s privates.
You are exactly right. California’s downward slide began when the state legislature legalized almost every sexual perversion about 30 years ago. If this nation embrace’s a perverted notion of homosexual “marriage”, I will give it less than a generation to survive.