Posted On: October 27, 2006, 2:22 pm CDT

Posted By: Bruce

"In what ways would you be personally harmed if gay couples were treated equally?"

Good question. For one thing, when I got married it meant one thing to be married. Now, to change the rules to suit some squeaky wheels, it is going to mean something else. If marriage becomes available to siblings and groups, as it must if we continue on this track, then it will eventually be a meaningless institution. In those Eurpoean nations that have allowed homosexuals to marry for decades, marriage rates have declined for precisely this reason - even though homos very rarely get married. They are too promiscuous to want to bother.

Secondly, I did not get married to obtain insurance and tax benefits, and so that the person with whom I have sex could visit me in the hospital, the reasons homos and their apologists routinely give. I got married to establish a covenant of exclusive intimacy with a woman so that she could be the mother of my children. The fact that homosexuals complain about insurance and tax issues primarily as the reasons for wanting to "get in" on marriage benefits, the shallow natures of both their arguements and character are revealed.

"How does the argument for or against equality for gay couples change if the morality issue is removed? I'm most curious to read answers to this question."

Another good question. I didn't appeal to morality in my answer to your first question, to take it as the answer to both.

However, the morality issue is imposible to remove from the human condition and questions of life. All legislation is someone's idea of right and wrong, so the law is a great teacher. If homos can get married (which few of them even care to do) it sends the message to young people that there is nothing wrong with sodomy: when in fact it is even more damaging to the human soul than it is to the anal suspensor muscle.