Contrary to the new Washington Post writer on the “conservative beat,” I am confident that I will continue to be proud of my involvement in the movement for natural marriage. Oh, you hadn’t heard about this? It seems that the Washington Post chose one David Weigel to be their correspondent to cover the conservative movement. He tweeted this statement.
“I can empathize with everyone I cover except for the anti-gay marriage bigots. In 20 years no one will admit they were part of that.”
Well, Dave, let me explain it to you.
Same sex marriage will undermine these principles:
1. biology is the basic way we assign parentage, with adoption as an important child-centered exception.
2. children are ordinarily entitled to a relationship with their moms and their dads.
3. the state recognizes parenthood as a natural reality. the state does not assign parenthood.
4. mothers and fathers are not completely and perfectly interchangeable.
I actually believe that in 20 or 30 years, the advocates of same sex marriage will be ashamed of themselves. they will have a lot to answer for. right now, virtually no one is viewing this issue from the child’s point of view, or from a systemic point of view. The advocates are just looking at how the adults are going to feel, in the short term. pro-gay marriage bloggers even ask questions like, “how has same sex marriage hurt anyone in Iowa.” Listen: no one expects the full effects of redefining marriage to reveal themselves in 12 months. how short-sighted can you be? This is the kind of seismic change that takes time to play itself out. But when it does, the results won’t be good.
But this has been pretty much the story of the sexual revolution from the beginning.
The advocates for no-fault divorce have refused to take responsibility for the harms they unleashed on society: the lonely husbands living in apartments by themselves, seeing their children every other weekend, the abandoned wives, struggling to make ends meet, the children who have family shrubs rather than family trees.
The ideologues promoting the contraceptive ideology have claimed reponsibility for every woman who has gone to college since 1965, but have not taken the slightest responsibility for the fatherless children, the abandoned women, child poverty, STD’s and all the other direct line consequences of their ideology.
And don’t get me started on the pro-abortion advocates: the data they ignore; the predators they have covered for; the women hurting from post-abortion trauma, never mind the millions of dead babies.
Redefining marriage as the union of any two persons will set forces in motion that no one on the same sex marriage side is even considering. They are too busy calling people names, to take our arguments seriously. I’m sick of it, frankly.