It's About Legitimacy and Moral Equivalency, Not Marriage
18 Sep 2005
After the Massachusetts’ Supreme Court made-up a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, the state legislature moved to undo the court’s decision by proposing a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages. When this amendment came up for a second required vote this past week, it was surprisingly defeated by a 157 to 39 margin.
The main reason for the state legislature’s flip-flop on this important issue appears to be the 6,600 same-sex marriages that have already taken place in Massachusetts. As a Republican lawmaker explained, “Gay marriage has begun, and life has not changed for the citizens of the commonwealth.”
Is same-sex marriage really so benign? A survey released this past Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests otherwise. According to it, more women in their late teens and 20s are experimenting with bisexuality than ever before. The reason for this unprecedented rise in sexual perversion appears to be the fact that such deviancy is no longer condemned but accepted in our society.
Make no mistake about it; what gays and lesbians truly want is legitimacy, not marriage, as is proven by the infinitesimal number of monogamous relationships in the homosexual community. Homosexuals will not rest until their deviant sexual behavior is as morally acceptable in our society as heterosexual marriage. Marriage, therefore, is simply a means to this end. Once same-sex marriage is legalized, as it now is in Massachusetts, there is no way homosexuality can be denied legitimacy or moral equivalency with heterosexual marriage.
Don Walton
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