Jun
A far too convenient hypothetical..
An 8-year-old goes to play at the house of his friend, who is raised by two lesbian women. The environment is a loving one. So this playmate, whose straight parents are married, is going to absorb one of two possible norms.
1) My friend lives in a happy home. His parents are married. When people grow up and love each other, and want to have kids and a happy home, they get married. (I hope I get married one day.); or
2) My friend lives in a happy home. His parents aren’t married. When people grow up and love each other, and want to have kids and a happy home, sometimes they get married like my parents. Other times they don’t get married, like my friend’s parents. (One day I may get married and have kids, but maybe I’ll just have kids and live with the person I love.)
</p> Opine editorials cannot sit silent while such an affront is forwarded. Since the beginning of this debate the received wisdom among advocates of same-sex “marriage” is that what someone does in their marriage shouldn’t effect someone else’s marriage” . Here we have the (convenient) hypothetical premised on the opposite scenario. That same-sex “marriage” will reinforce a marriage culture by stressing its universality & centrality to childbearing. </p> A number of Questions seem salient.
(1)When did the cultural left and sexual libertines suddenly become interested in the promotion of intact married childrearing & monogamy? Where were they in the fight against divorce, illegitimacy, single motherhood, and family breakdown?
(2)Why would the child receive that message from the lesbian couple? Why wouldn’t they receive the message that …
(a)All family forms are inherently equal?
(b) Fathers are not essential or even important to childrearing?
(c) Mothers are not essential or even important to childrearing?
(d)Marriage is elastic concepts were no single form is preferable?
(e) Marriage’s core definition was changed in the recent past and is therefore open to further creative arrangements.
(f) If it is ok to raise children apart from a Father (or Mother) than single parenting, divorce & illegitimacy are not detrimental in childrearing or as a norm for society.
When we try and assert the above points (and more) concerning the effects same-sex “marriage” will have on marriage; we are tortured with a “prove it” mentality. Yet a banal hypothetical like the above travel unmolested in the imagination of same-sex “marriage” advocates.
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