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How do you define marriage, why, and what do you think marriage is for?
I'm not scared of homosexuals. I don't see the world being taken over by gay boogie-men that want to feminize me. If I thought the redefinition of marriage would stop forever at being between two people regardless of sex, I'd have no issue against it. My problem with gay marriage is that this is not the end or the limit to which marriage will be redefined, and the extent to which marriage loses its exclusive nature is the extent to which it ceases to be marriage.
So what is marriage?
My opinion: An institution in which to foster loyalty to a partnership, the transmission of life, and the rearing and cultivation of those lives brought into the world.
I think it is a grave mistake to hold marriage as abstract from child-bearing, as well as to hold love as the sole prerequisite to marriage.
I realize there are a dozen holes in my argument: Would I deny marriage to those who want no children? Of course not. I only ask that child-bearing be a point of emphasis.
I'd like to know what you think marriage is and what it's for.
I'm not scared of homosexuals. I don't see the world being taken over by gay boogie-men that want to feminize me. If I thought the redefinition of marriage would stop forever at being between two people regardless of sex, I'd have no issue against it. My problem with gay marriage is that this is not the end or the limit to which marriage will be redefined, and the extent to which marriage loses its exclusive nature is the extent to which it ceases to be marriage.
So what is marriage?
My opinion: An institution in which to foster loyalty to a partnership, the transmission of life, and the rearing and cultivation of those lives brought into the world.
I think it is a grave mistake to hold marriage as abstract from child-bearing, as well as to hold love as the sole prerequisite to marriage.
I realize there are a dozen holes in my argument: Would I deny marriage to those who want no children? Of course not. I only ask that child-bearing be a point of emphasis.
I'd like to know what you think marriage is and what it's for.