If I were hit by a bus today and killed, my wife would eventually worry about the children not having a male role model in our children’s lives. She would see that my son needed a man to emulate, someone to share with in the physical way that men have. She would come to understand that my girls would surely lack a steadying male presence in their lives.
Forget all the talking heads about gay marriage. Forget all the talk about rights for a second. Forget all the studies which attempt to show that children raised by homosexuals are doing as well or better than children raised by a mother and a father. Here’s the thing — we know in our hearts that children do best when raised by a mother and a father. Men and women are complimentary. We are not the same. Gay marriage, is not so much about sexuality, as it is about gender.
Codifying and promoting gay marriage as equal to the marriage of a man and a woman says there is no gender difference. Of course there is and we all know that there is. But having the government not only codifying gay marriage but promoting it (which legalization does) goes against what we know is best for children. Children need a mother and a father.
That’s the thing. Maybe we’ve forgotten that marriage isn’t just about us. It’s about us but not just about us. Family is the building block of our society. To have a child, nature says you need a man and a woman. But now, we seem to be saying that we know better than nature. Sure, you need a man and a woman to have a child but not to raise a child?
It’s obvious that a man and a man CAN raise a child. But is it healthy for society to promote that as equal when we know that it’s not? That’s what it comes down to. By legalizing gay marriage we’re essentially saying, once again, that our rights trump our children’s rights.
We have made everything about US. Marriage is about ME. It’s about my right to marry whomever I choose but it completely ignores if it’s good for society. When considering gay marriage, ask yourself if it’s good for children. Ask yourself if you believe that it’s an equal good for a child to be raised by a man and a woman or two women or two men. Ask yourself if you believe gender is irrelevant and interchangeable. When you ask yourself if you’re for gay marriage, ask yourself if it’s good for the children.
April 12, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Anonymous said…
You may want to put a comma in the first sentence so that it does not sound like you (were)both involved in an accident and committed murder. 🙂 ~MattK
"Killed" refers back to the bus accident, not to the commission of homicide. Therefore, the first comma may be ommitted. False witness about the homicide needs to be addressed.
April 12, 2013 at 4:54 pm
Government is to be defined by its the duty to preserve the innocence and virginity of its citizens to be able to deliver Justice. Indoctrination in public school fails to meet the test of this definition. This makes of indoctrination, a falsehood, a failure to provide Justice and truth and of the government, a mockery, a sham, a tyranny in providing to “secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity” from the Preamble, the unchangeable purpose of our Constitution. Were our constitution wrong, and it is right, non-adherence to our founding principles renders a man less than a citizen. (It seems this reason is why tyrannies called it treason and executed millions of human beings.) The state has an obligation, a duty, to preserve and protect the innocence and virginity, legal, moral and sexual, of our posterity as they are created by “their Creator”. The human being is created in absolute moral, legal and sexual innocence and virginity. God does not create sin. God creates the human beings' rational, immortal soul in absolute innocence. It is the duty of the state to define and promote this perfect innocence inspite of concupiscence. The failure to do so is the creation of hell on earth and this is not what government is constituted by the perfect innocence of our posterity to do. Now, the abortion movement to wipe out innocence and virginity becomes obvious. The removal of the Person of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, now becomes obvious.
April 12, 2013 at 5:13 pm
You do realize your God called Himself the God of the Living, and that people, generally speaking, have to have sex in order to have children?
Virginity certainly has its place in Christianity, but sometimes I wonder if people aren't missing the point. Chastity would be a more appropriate word there Mary, but if you go running around refusing to put it into context you end up making God seem completely insane. He is our Creator and he put certain biological imperatives in us, and He appears highly interested in us being fruitful and multiplying. This inordinate love of virginity sounds like some of the gnostic writings.
April 15, 2013 at 6:38 am
The Virgin Mary is yes, a virgin, and it's not gnostic.
The problem is Anglo Puritan-Victorian culture. they pervert the meaning of "purity".
April 15, 2013 at 6:39 am
Anglos have a different concept of virginity compared to Latins and even East Asians.
April 15, 2013 at 2:45 pm
I was not talking about the Virgin Mary. Mary happens to be the name of another commenter. You'd have to read her comment to understand what I am talking about.