Traditional Values vs. Gay Marriage
Tuesday November 2, 2004
Voters in Oregon will deciding whether to ban gay marriages. The state government website keeps lists of ballot measures along with citizen-submitted arguments for and against. One clever citizen going by the name of Dennis Moore has submitted several "interesting" arguments for why gay marriage should be banned.
According to the Oregon site:
Traditional values are under attack, and sexual perverts are attempting to strain the definition of marriage far beyond what God has ordained. The Word of the Lord must be legislated as Oregon public policy. In the Holy Bible, Saint Paul says that Christians should remain single and abstain from sex. ... Marriage is not sacred. Marriage is for wimps and sissies!
Oregon public policy should define marriage in accordance with divinely inspired Scripture. Therefore, marriage licenses should be granted only to those persons who have been certified by professional psychiatric examination to be too weak-willed to abstain from sex.
The sissy institution of marriage must not be perverted by sinners who are capable of abstaining! The sacred union of church and state must prohibit the immoral union of men and women capable of the discipline of sexual abstinence. We are not saved by either faith or good works. We are saved by religious-right legislation!
(This information furnished by M. Dennis Moore, Traditional Prejudices Coalition.)
And:
Marriage is for procreation. If you're not pro-Creation, you're anti-God. And once a marriage has been solemnized, sex is serious business. The solemnity of sex must not be abused for sinful pleasures. Sex is for procreation, not recreation. And marriage is for breeding purposes. ... [C]ouples who fail to conceive within two years ought to have their marriage licenses revoked.
Traditional morality must become Oregon public policy. All of it. And the older the tradition, the better. The separation of church and state be damned. In order to protect the sanctity of marriage and the sacred institution of heterosexual procreation, unequal treatment and discrimination must be legislated consistently against all persons who cannot or will not breed as God intended. It is God's will that we multiply and fill the Earth and finally subdue it when the population explosion self-implodes. Praise God!
(This information furnished by M. Dennis Moore, Defense of Heterosexual Breeding Coalition.)
And:
Frightening new unprecedented social changes are threatening old traditional values. And these attacks on tradition have been escalating--for millennia! First there was Original Sin when Eve disobeyed God! Then the Flood! Then Abraham abandoned the traditional practice of human sacrifice! Then Jews instituted the modern covenant of circumcision! Then Moses brought down from Mount Sinai a bunch of new-fangled Laws on stone tablets! And later Jesus abolished them and preached instead the radical new Golden Rule!
Where will it all end? After 6,000-some years of frightening attacks on old traditional values, will history never cease to unfold? Will God never stop throwing all of these radical social changes at us?
(This information furnished by M. Dennis Moore, The Beaver State Defense of Beaver Coalition.)
Compare these arguments to a more genuine offered by David Crowe of Restore America:
Marriage is not a convenient contrivance of man but the creation of God for the well-being and happiness of mankind. It is intended by God to be a lifelong unity of loyalty and love between a man, a woman, and God—the natural offspring of that unique, God ordained relationship being children—in a safe and healthy God centered family. Marriage between a man and a woman is the fundamental institution of any society. It provides the only healthy context for procreation and the development of normal, healthy, and godly human relationships.
To radically and fundamentally change the definition of marriage to include what God considers an "abomination" is to reject God's purpose in marriage for men, women, children, and a nation; to "exchange the Glory of God for a lie", and to reject the "eternal rules of order and right" which God has ordained. Providing equivalent legal standing to unnatural relationships will force devastating and irreversible changes to our society. The rights of conscience, and the accompanying freedom to make moral distinctions will be severely curtailed. Public schools and curriculum will be required to teach that homosexual 'marriage' is the moral equivalent to traditional marriage. Religious freedom, healthcare, and Social Security will all be negatively impacted.
I really like Moore's style. I congratulate him for getting this stuff past the state's monitors and for doing such a good job at revealing what the typical arguments in favor of banning gay marriage are really like.
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If marriage is for procreation, then why are people who are sterile and can’t have kids allowed to marry?