#9 RightWingHippyChick – I don’t care if they want to commit themselves in a gross parody of traditional nuptials. I think they should have all the rights of any civil contract available to others as a matter of equal access to the law.
However, I don’t want it to be called marriage. Marriage is a load-bearing beam of our society. It is necessary to the proper upbringing of our children. The fact that marriage has become so dispensable has contributed greatly to the decay of our society. As marriage rates go down, and divorces go up, our society becomes more dysfunctional in direct relation.
So, we must build back up the value of marriage in our society to arrest the decline. We need to exalt it. People need to treat it as truly valuable. Couples need to work to make it work. We need to honor those who have held together marriages for long periods of time, so that they’ll be less likely to abandon such status.
With that premise, I say we cannot afford to water down the issue by allowing gay marriage. I want my kids to grow up seeing marriage as one thing, not as some morally equivalent thing. I want the example set properly. One can talk all one wants, but it is the deeds which children see. Men and women get married and stay married. That is the norm I want them to see and emulate. I want this to be their reality. Our society depends upon it.
