Redding Penlight Article of the Day: Same-sex marriage's effects are everyone's business

[XemaSab]

Same-sex marriage is being presented as a civil right, the equivalent of interracial marriage, the denial of which is unloving and cruel, and the practice of which is harmlessly none of anyone else’s business. These arguments are as flawed as the cry of discrimination is emotional blackmail.

Same-sex union is not a rights issue, as marriage is not a right but something with requirements — I cannot marry my son, my favorite five nephews and nieces, nor my favorite pet, at least not yet. Government recognizes marriage not due to rights of coupling or presence of equivalent feelings, but because heterosexual marriage is what Canada’s Dr. John Patrick calls a specialized and vital instrument of general welfare. Whatever its shortfalls, heterosexual marriage is the best environment in which to produce and raise children, a union and sacrifice that improves both sexes through the complementary things the one brings to the others, and is therefore in the public interest doing what government cannot, namely bedrock a civilization.

The comparison to interracial marriage is a red herring deeply resented by said racial communities. Marriage between man and woman — interracial or not — extends life, improves health and helps society. Same-sex marriage makes men more promiscuous and women more dependent, shortens life through practices rarely divulged in the argument together with higher rates of mental health issues, and has proven to harm society by separating in the public conscience the concepts of matrimony and procreation.

Parents with same-sex attracted sons and daughters are right to love them but shouldn’t confuse compassion with enabling of harmful behaviors and unions. It is true that God makes no junk, but beware the implied blame shifting, as God doesn’t make one gay. Human sexuality is not inborn, but multifactorial and changeable at any stage of life, something race is not.

http://www.redding.com/news/2008/jul/10/same-sex-marriages-effects-are-everyones/

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. How does same-sex marriage make men more promiscuous and women more dependent?

What a load of crap. Edited to add, and I'm sure you don't support his views!
:hi:

[XemaSab]

2. You can't cheat on your spouse unless you're married?

And similarly, your spouse can't cheat on you unless you're married? :shrug:

:crazy:

[EFerrari]

7. Shortens your life span and makes you crazy, too.

We have a live one here.

[XemaSab]

10. Every time a gay person is born, Baby Jesus gets colic.

:crazy:

[EFerrari]

12. The last time I read something that nuts it was hate mail

for posting a petition to stop the bombing in Lebanon to our old website. I hope that person doesn't drive. :crazy:

[crikkett]

3. those effects being: a more just and more equal society

Hey, you pasted that stuff without comment. Are you in agreement with this article, in disagreement, or are you trolling?

[XemaSab]

4. Um... I commented on the Penlight's site

And NO, I'm not supportive of the article. :P

[kevinbgoode]

11. hehehe...so did I.

And I don't think they'll like my remarks AT ALL.

[EFerrari]

13. I praised the efficiency of the author.

:)

[XemaSab]

15. If you posted the comment I think you did...

:toast:

[Clovis Sangrail]

5. so... what exactly *are the 'requirments' of marriage?

if, as Andre seems to say, it's having kids then an awful lot of hetero marriages need to be annulled.

[EFerrari]

6. Creepy pseudo logic with big dollops of out right cr@p.

Yikes!

[Disturbed]

8. "God doesn’t make one gay."

Even though I don't believe this god stuff in the Judeo.Christian bible, this is still an absurd claim. People are born hetero &/or bi or homosexual. The entire article is BS.

[EFerrari]

9. How does this wacko know what God does?

I mean, just even going alone with the idea that God does stuff, lol, how would Andre know?

:)

[readmoreoften]

14. These people can't be won over. That's why they need to be fought.

This is the same nonsense argument they always spew. It's not ignorance. It's an eradication regime. It's good old-fashioned hatred. People who write arguments like this will not have an "a-ha" moment. They are enemies. They must be fought flat out and named as such.