Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage

Today we debate the question whether gays may receive official social permission for marrying . This logical consequence could have been foretold . Notwithstanding , most of the people , who wished only to be kind , had never thought that common human kindness would require them to approve of homosexual marriage . At present , they wonder what to do . We could admittedly say that while heterosexual sex is people 's ideal , they should not discriminate against gays . This conclusion , however , while attractive , is not as good as it sounds . For instance , one would hardly

hold that gay marriage and family must be community 's ideal and consequently advocate homosexual marriage . I realize why someone hotly and instinctively opposes to the idea of gay marriage . I was myself disappointed by the three main arguments concerning homosexual marriage I have seen against it . The strongest of my arguments , the inability to procreate , forecasts tremendous harm to the race and to our plans for the upbringing and welfare of children . Then I do not doubt the accuracy of the next two arguments : religion and the belief that they are not born as homosexuals

Homosexual marriage ' is only one step in the campaign , with many more steps down to the abolition of all moral standards . The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decreed that the state constitution guarantees the right of homosexuals to marry . And the political left not only has approved the decision on egalitarian grounds , but also predicts that gay marriage will hold all sorts of beneficial effects for the rest of us . I think that arguments designed by the Massachusetts Supreme Court to shore up an absurd decision in an increasingly absurd nation fail to recognize the true nature of marriage . It is a social institution , and its very existence confirms the great truth that sex is not a private matter of two adults , as gays claim

Marriage , whether in ancient Israel , Greece , Rome or in modern America is designed to control sexual behavior and bring children into the community . Sex is a highly significant and volatile drive : it can create life as well as spread death . In a broad sense , it is everybody 's business . Thus marriage always has been the norm : a man and a woman living together and confining their sexual activity to each other for life . In the past divorce was rare because people believed the institution was more important than the two people involved , so couples stayed together . More recently , men and women have tended to enter into marriage for self-fulfillment ' Hollywood-style . However , with the inevitable abatement of sexual excitement , partners increasingly have decided to divorce , shuttle the children between households and seek new sexual adventures

Yet even in an era when marriage has fallen on hard times , it still is the most important stabilizing influence in society . Bleak tabloid headlines to the contrary , during any given year more than 85 percent of married couples have sex only with each other . Predictably , married couples experience the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted...