#52 RAH – All your assumptions are false.
Though you be childless, your marriage yet has value to society, as you maintain the model for society, with or without marriage. This is a point the article made.
Those who bear children outside marriage, do society and their children a disservice. It is better than abortion, but it does do ill. This is the greatest cause for societal disfunction, as proven by many studies on causes of criminality.
Marriage is, indeed, drying up. The number of people who never marry is on the rise. The durability of marriages has been on the decline for decades. Yes, people divorce and re-marry (rinse and repeat). In fact, were it not for that tendency, and the children that ensue from these unions, we would not be still replacing ourselves, since the number of children per union is down.
Collapse of civility? The evidence is all around you. Try this: count the number of times you hear please or thank you per day. One can go days without hearing these phrases. How many times per day do you yourself use these phrases? Count the times you hear “no problem” instead of “you’re welcome”, then tell me civility isn’t on the decline.
Gay marriage doesn’t cause this. No one said it did. The decline of marriage causes this, as children are not brought up in the proper environment. Children need the proper role models. They need the stability and love of a committed, heterosexual relationship.
Marriage needs to be exalted in our society. We need to cherish it. Our future as a society depende upon it. Gay marriage waters down the message and the intrinsic value of marrriage. It’s a form of moral equivalence. The people who maintain a hetero marriage are furthering our society. They form the infrastructure of our future.
Do not sell short your marriage, just because you have no children. You are doing your part to support the ideal of marriage as the form of what our society should look like. You are one of the pillars of our society. You are doing your part for us as a whole. You set an example. I value what you do.
