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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Bill Murchison :: Townhall.com Columnist
Gay "Marriage" Fantasy
by Bill Murchison
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You really can't have "gay marriage," you know, irrespective of what a court or a legislature may say.

You can have something some people call gay marriage because to them the idea sounds worthy and necessary, but to say a thing is other than it is, is to stand reality on its head, hoping to shake out its pockets.

Such is the supposed effect of the Iowa Supreme Court's declaration last week that gays and heterosexuals enjoy equal rights to marital bliss. Nope. They don't and won't, even if liberal Vermont follows Iowa's lead.

The human race -- sorry ladies, sorry gents -- understands marriage as a compact reinforcing social survival and projection. It has always been so. It will always be so, even if every state Supreme Court pretended to declare that what isn't suddenly is. Life does not work in this manner.

The supposed redefinition of the Great Institution is an outgrowth of modern hubris and disjointed individualism. "What I say goes!" has become our national philosophy since the 1960s. One appreciates the First Amendment right to make such a claim. Nonetheless, no such boast actually binds unless it corresponds with the way things are at the deepest level, human as well as divine. Surface things can change. Not the deep things, among them human existence.

A marriage -- a real one -- brings together man and woman for mutual society and comfort, but also, more deeply, for the long generational journey to the future. Marriage, as historically defined, across all religious and non-religious demarcations, is about children -- which is why a marriage in which the couple deliberately repudiates childbearing is so odd a thing, to put the matter as generously as possible.

A gay "marriage" (never mind whether or not the couple tries to adopt) is definitionally sterile -- barren for the purpose of extending the generations for purposes vaster than any two people, (including people of opposite sexes), can envision. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 11, 2009 - 3:01 PM EST
The du observations
du makes her observations in part:

"Hating homosexuality and homosexuals is an extension of misogyny, and hierarchy of exploiting those who are perceived as weak and maintaining the myth of supremacy on the basis of being heterosexual and/or male alone."

Comment:Radical ideological rant.The presumptuous statement that people hate homosexuals flies in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary.

"And religion is to all intents and purposes a cultural invention, not a biological part of human existence as homosexuality is."

Comment: Factual evidence has yet to be found linking homosexuality to genetics or biology. There are THOUSANDS of people who were homosexual, and now are not. Then we have bi-sexuals. If sexual orientatiom can be rountinely switched, then it is not a born that way problem.


"The third sex, those who are gay and transgendered are considered the tempering value and some cultures have and did thoroughly embrace this concept, until the BRUTAL and reactionary influence of Islam, Judaism and Christianity."

Comment:So untrue that comment is not necessary.

"The survival of the human race depends on tempering the sexual tension between men and women."

Comment" Sorry, no it does not.


"There needs to be custodians of other aspects of a successful society and gay people no doubt fit that bill."

Comment: An example of making up a need and then making an answer up to fill the made up need.

"But no one here wants to question how wrong that treatment has been."

Comment: My genetic hapologroup is one of the rarest in the world because my descendants were used as mercenaries and killed off. No one wants to talk about how wrong my ancestors were treated either.





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Reply # 2
Date: Apr 11, 2009 - 2:26 PM EST
think again
Animals can procreate and might be protective of their young.
But humans kill their young too, with alarming regularity.
So...the points about gay people not procreating in a world of 7 billion and counting is specious.

Creation does make checks and balances with regard to controlling or improving population too and what quality we can give individual and collective lives in the meantime.

The fact remains that the survival of the human race goes beyond just MAKING babies.
Look around you people.
Men and women don't get along at all. The most influential religion's texts were written by men and establish women as the reason why there is so much misery in the world.
Hating homosexuality and homosexuals is an extension of misogyny, and hierarchy of exploiting those who are perceived as weak and maintaining the myth of supremacy on the basis of being heterosexual and/or male alone.

And religion is to all intents and purposes a cultural invention, not a biological part of human existence as homosexuality is. The third sex, those who are gay and transgendered are considered the tempering value and some cultures have and did thoroughly embrace this concept, until the BRUTAL and reactionary influence of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

The survival of the human race depends on tempering the sexual tension between men and women. There needs to be custodians of other aspects of a successful society and gay people no doubt fit that bill. Cutting off the thumb to spite the hand is one analogy to fit how gay people are treated with hostility.
But no one here wants to question how wrong that treatment has been.

I wish there were more courageous people here who would care to know what a few of us regulars to this website weren't afraid to know.
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