First, a fairly good essay for laying out the basic arguments without falling into the ?eww icky? trap like so many do, except this still irritated me just because of her language choices. I mean, let?s face it, if I gave this to just about any one of my peers to read, they?d call her a bigoted-bad-word and discount the whole thing entirely.
Obama? ?Gay Marriage? is NOT Marriage. Here?s Why
By Monica Migliorino Miller, Ph.D.
But there is a bit in the middle that?s basically the crux of the matter, without getting too heavy on the holding-nose-while-using-the-word-homosexual-all-the-time thing:
If the bond between two men or two women may be considered the equivalent of the one-flesh marital unity between a man and a woman, a bond that gives rise to the family, we are then saying that all human ties are strictly a matter of the will?only when persons choose to be connected to one another?by emotional, legal or artificial contrivance? that they are then connected. And if the fundamental building block of society, namely the family, is essentially a matter of choice, those choices can be undone by personal will. The family simply becomes an arrangement of the will?no one is in essence a mother, a father, a husband or wife. The family unit is turned into a mere fragile arrangement of personal volition. Indeed, being a husband or wife, mother or father is nominal, not real.
The family is no longer a unit cemented by innate natural familial bonds that actually cause persons to be mother and child, brother and sister?essential identities embedded in nature itself that produce innate responsibilities to which persons who have such identities must be held accountable. Nothing here should be interpreted to mean that sterile couples who adopt children are not parents. Their heterosexual marital unity, unlike ?gay marriage? participates in the truth of marriage and is a public sign of that truth. Their sexual unity is oriented towards life in a way that ?gay marriage? can never be. ?
Society is not the consequence of arbitrary self-willed human relationships. Marriage is the first building block that creates, not only brothers and sisters, but future marriages that produce cousins, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, grandfathers, grandmothers, great grandfathers and mothers, as well as great uncles and aunts. Laws do not create these worlds?innate natural bonds create these worlds?worlds that of themselves cause human identity and human responsibilities. Absolutely nothing can replace such natural world-building! And the law cannot create the moral responsibilities that come from such bonds?it can only call persons to live up to them! Again, for this reason, government has an interest in protecting marriage.
Maybe the thing that gets on my nerves about most writings about the topic is that it always focuses on how unworthy the gay relationships are, and never on the details of traditional marriage that we?re supposed to be focused on. So, here?s this last bit, which will segue nicely into the next article:
How did we come to this point?that homosexual bonds should be considered the equivalent of marriage? The truth must be told. It is indeed the heterosexual community that is to blame, not homosexuals. Heterosexuals have given up on the meaning of human sexuality. Heterosexuals are the ones who no longer believe in marriage. We have said so with 50 years of contraception, unquestioned sexual activity outside of marriage, living together without marriage, rampant divorce, including no-fault divorce, rampant out-of-wedlock pregnancies, artificial reproduction?and then add to this? 40 years of abortion. Heterosexuals have already said that sex, marriage and the family have no meaning?they become what we subjectively, privately, by a sheer matter of the will, say they are?and nothing more. We simply have no moral, cultural place to stand upon which we may say that homosexuals can?t call what they do ?marriage.?
I mean, read the whole thing, just rewrite it if you want to show it to anyone who isn?t a nun with a slightly sour look on her face.
So, next:
WaPo ? Isabel Sawhill: Bringing up baby alone
On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, he chided Murphy Brown ? the fictional 40-something, divorced news anchor played by Candice Bergen on a CBS sitcom ? for her decision to have a child outside of marriage.
?Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong,? the vice president said. ?Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn?t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today?s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.?
Quayle?s argument ? that Brown was sending the wrong message, that single parenthood should not be encouraged ? erupted into a major campaign controversy. And just a few weeks before the ?92 vote, the show aired portions of his speech and had characters react to it.
?Perhaps it?s time for the vice president to expand his definition and recognize that, whether by choice or circumstance, families come in all shapes and sizes,? Bergen?s character said.
Her fictional colleague Frank, meanwhile, echoed some of the national reaction: ?It?s Dan Quayle ? forget about it!?
Twenty years later, Quayle?s words seem less controversial than prophetic.
Etc. Oh the times, they are a-changin.
Meanwhile babies are being murdered one-by-one by government thugs in Syria (article free, for now), and 160 female students are being poisoned in their Afghan school, for the second time in a week.
Oh, and, just for kicks, video of ?Black church leaders? reacting to the question if gay marriage is the same as the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
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