[ Heterosexual marriage has its downsides, too, you know. The currently-high divorce rate is a great example of this, as is the high rate of adultery amongst heterosexuals. But does that mean that heterosexuality, in and of itself, is wrong? Of course not. So why think that homosexuality is wrong, then, just because it has some downsides? It seems like the only real argument you have against homosexuality is that it goes against the Bible. But since when is everyone required to follow the Bible? ]
There is a reason there is no such thing and never will be any such thing as ‘gay marriage’. Because marriage is definitively the bringing together of a man and a woman to secure to their children their natural parents.
David Blankenhorn’s Protecting Marriage to Protect Children Sept 19, 2008
Marriage has always been a partnering of opposites, male and female, and to pretend two gays can be married is to not know what marriage is.
HeroicNews: Why Marriage can Never be Gay, Dec 28, 2013
It is critical for healthy child rearing to have stable consistent parental relationships from either side of gender dimorphism. Daughters need respectable fathers to learn to expect to be treated with respect. Boys need mothers to teach them the value of respecting the weaker sex. And children learn by watching all the time their parents, without their even realizing it. And absent the dynamics of a opposite sex relationship a hideous void rends asunder their formative years.
CBS News: Kids of gay parents fare worse, study finds, June 12, 2012
The divorce rate statistic that’s been going around for the past few decades is actually a wanton deception. Thomas Sowell explains it best:
“In a given year, the number of divorces may well be half as large as the number of marriages that year, but this is comparing apples and oranges. The marriages being counted or only those marriages taking place within the given year, while the divorces that year are from marriages that took place over a period of decades. To say that half of all marriages end in divorce, based on such statistics would be like saying that half the population died last year if deaths were half as large as births. Just as most people were neither born nor died last year, so most marriages did not begin or end last year. “-Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed
CNS News: How Does Gay Marriage Hurt Us? Here’s How! June 17, 2014
Marriage is a religious and cultural institution and just like most people in western society know nothing of how fundamental the Christian world view has shaped our society, so too are most ignorant of how Marriage supports society.
To garner the beginning of an understanding just look at the repercussions of the destruction of the Black Family. [which btw was on the rise when the socialism of the Great Society destroyed it]
Just as you cannot demonize heterosexual relationships because of their particular failures, you cannot attribute homosexual relationships with successes they are by nature incapable of achieving, specifically because of the natural differences of the sexes which cultural revolutionaries so ardently try to deny the existence of—
Masha Gessen Gay Marriage Activist, “Marriage shouldn’t exist” Apr 23, 2013
It seems like the only real argument you have against homosexuality is that it goes against the Bible. But since when is everyone required to follow the Bible?
Take note, and look back at the exactly ZERO times I brought up the Bible.
In my previous post I explained the morality of LIBERTY, the definition of mental illness, and various statistics. In this post I’ve explained the nature of marriage & why homosexuality must fall short [gender dimorphism] marriage’s relevance to child rearing, faulty divorce statistics, and noted the definitive repercussions when the family is dissolved. [We absolutely know that a child is less well off without both a father and mother, period].
Nowhere did I ever suggest an ironfisted theocracy. =/ I said, in toto, Liberty trumps your feelings. & Homosexuality is unhealthy.
You seem to be inventing what you think I’d say rather than reading my words. =/
As you can’t get that much clear, I don’t see the point in distinguishing between universal nature of one thing [homosexuality] and the failings of another [marriage] within individual instances and or trends in a relatively small time segment of cultural revolution. =/
Humans are by nature flawed. To point out the nature of homosexuality and it’s unachievable virtues, and those same virtues found redonkulously in TradMarriage is not to overlook the failings in particular TradMarriages.
Of course [since you brought up the Bible out of the blue] ancient Jewish wisdom teaches that love of yourself is only the basis on which to grow. The Golden Rule: Love thy neighbor as thyself, is the next step. And courage requires reaching out to ‘other’s.
In homosexuality this natural development of human morality is squashed. Getting along with a life partner so different as to be another gender altogether is the natural means to forcing human growth.
And just fyi, the likes of J.D. Unwin have studied anthropological matters which to me suggest the probability that fidelity in TradMarriage relates to measures of advancement in civilization itself.
BUT without the Bible you really have no idea where we would be, AT ALL. Classical Liberalism was of Christian derivation, esp. the Christian Philosophy called “Scottish Common Sense”. There never would have been any kind of abolition movement. The world before Jewish laws of the old testament giving indentured servants specific legal rights shows only a glimpse of what the imminent pagan world was like. They had to institute laws against child/human sacrifice because it was a real normal thing going on.
Every Atheist in the world cannot lift himself off of his intellectual belly without the moral foundation of Christian pluralism.The golden rule is the basis for the non aggression principle. Civil rights are derived from Natural Law a Biblical concept.
