Saturday, April 6, 2013

Day Late, Dollar Short...

I've had some arguments rolling around in my head (as I drive to and from work) against gay marriage.
Friday, I heard one on the radio put succinctly.
I was about to make a similar argument on the air the previous day, but work intervened.
Mark Davis put it better, and the guy he was politely and charitably discussing it with was a target rich opportunity.
The caller was seemingly a conservative, or I doubt he would have enjoyed listening daily as he claimed.
That means he just didn't understand or believe the  host every time he explained church/state, for one.

To be laissez-faire on gay marriage is sometimes to be intellectually lazy-fare.
That person will allow himself to be robbed, because the meaning of his words will be stolen from him.

To redefine marriage is to redefine family. The family is already redefined with gay adoptions.
The redefinition of marriage is a natural extension.

There is a difference between men and women.
You know it, I know it.
Yet there are those who deny it to bring about a change in society that they envision.
In a very real Orwellian sense, you too must not notice the difference or the house of cards collapses.
Therefore, there must be "equal" signs on Facebook to demonstrate that you are willing to accept the fiction.
Thankfully I haven't seen these among my "friends" some who are pro-gay marriage.
If I'd seen one, I'd have had to create a "not-equal" profile photo to post.

"Equal" is not "Same"!

Tab "A" goes in Slot "B".
Tab "A" doesn't fit Tab "A" correctly.
Slot "B" can never go in Slot "B".

On another note, the equal protection standard does not apply.
It was put rather succinctly at American Thinker yesterday.
Restricting gay marriage restricts heterosexuals from same sex marriage as well as homosexuals.
It's equality in action!
I'm not offended that I cannot marry a male, even though the law limits me from doing so.

So then, why should we care?
Because men and women are different.
Men have an effect as father's and women as mothers.
Necessary effects. As role models, guides and nurturers.
They don't always get it right.
But on the average it works.
The way it was designed.
oh darn, there's that church/state thing again.
The way "nature" intended (evolved it), if you prefer.
And so the kids grow up being better nurtured and guided.
And they become the basis of the next generation of a healthy society.
A society that affects us all.

Well, thanks for stopping by.

19 comments:

  1. For some people the "State" is all that matters. Everything related to our nation and its freedoms must be erased to get to the perfect collective.

    Religion must be replaced by the State. The only god can be the State. Thus they chip away at morality until there is no longer right and wrong. There is only what the State defines as moral.

    It is the ultimate slight of hand; political magic. The State tells you no one has a right to limit your hedonistic desires while stripping your freedoms one by one behind your back. You will wear a government uniform while living in government housing, eat government food and work a government job. But you can screw the neighbor boy if you want.

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    1. Joe,
      Well said!

      Why can't more people see what you see?

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  2. Such a good post...I'm going to come back and re-read it, maybe even copy it to have...thank you. Joe's remarks are excellent, too.
    Wear a Mao Jacket and 'do' your little boy neighbor...what fun! And it's LEGAL~!(sarcasm, of course)

    I have heard there are reports which do say that children do much better in two-gender parental families...... where are the reports and why aren't they coming out now? With a leftwing/secular media this strong, have we a chance?

    We do with God; but I feel we need to be good stewards and this is getting VERY FRUSTRATING!, sitting back and watching the debauchery of AMerica.

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    1. I hear those reports quoted on Bennett but never checked the source. It's kind of prima facie or axiomatic.

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  3. If it were only a matter of long term gay couples wanting the same legal protections as married couples so far as insurance, property rights, medical decisions, etc. then I'd be far more tolerant of the issue. But there's a social and political agenda out there actively trying to tear down every institution that is sacred to us Christians and put us in a minority, if not abolish us completely, by trying to force acceptance of something that goes against our teachings as normal. And if we don't wholeheartedly embrace it and allow it to permeate our churches, our Sunday school lessons, and our marriage ceremonies, then we're written off as homophobic hatemongers. That's where I have the most problems, being shoved off into a category that someone else has made for me.

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    1. Dave: I feel the same way. I have a couple gay friends like that (friends of a friend), I'm compassionate, but the camel's nose is too far in the tent.

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  4. Great post Ed reading u and my other favorites make me miss blogging gotta get

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  5. It is all about the word 'marriage', since they already have all the legal standing under the 'civil union' legislation that has passed...

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    1. Yes sir. With "marriage" they have our approval.
      That's what they want. Our forced approval.

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  6. "That's what they want. Our forced approval"

    ding ding ding Winner winner chicken dinner.

    Why is the Government involved in marriage anyway? The end game is to force Christian Churches to accept gay marriage and perform gay marriage. The lef twants t otear down the foundations of religion.

    I am not a good Christian, but even I see it.

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  7. "That's what they want. Our forced approval"

    ding ding ding Winner winner chicken dinner.

    Why is the Government involved in marriage anyway? The end game is to force Christian Churches to accept gay marriage and perform gay marriage. The lef twants t otear down the foundations of religion.

    I am not a good Christian, but even I see it.

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  8. Today, I stumbled across THIS. Excerpt:

    Most people are not aware of how gay marriage will undermine the traditional family because it does so in ways that are subtle and ubiquitous. However, once gay marriage is introduced into a nation, it undermines the integrity of every family and every marriage in the nation. It does this by rearranging the family’s relationship to the state. The state which legalizes gay marriage is a state that has assumed the god-like power to declare which collections of individuals constitute a ‘family.’ But by this assumption government declares that both marriage and family are little more than legal constructs at best, and gifts from the state at worst. In the former case, marriage and family lose their objective fixity; in the latter case, we become the wards of the state.

    So many presenting secular arguments in favor of gay marriage seem blinded to the above.

    Anyway, I thought that I'd pass along the link and the excerpt.

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    1. AOW: I read that link, thank you. Echoes Joe.
      We need these extra-scriptural arguments so we are not seen as "bible thumpers" as Bill O'Reilly so awkwardly put it.
      We've got to keep the "righteous" population of Sodom above ten.

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  9. A healthy society changes, but the changes aren't to the language or made with a complete disregard to established beliefs.

    Marriage is between a man and a woman. That's the final definition and all the legal mumbo-jumbo won't change what's established. If our society wants to change the laws and allow same sex couples the same legal rights of married couples, then get after it; just don't do so by subverting the language.

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  10. A healthy society changes, but the changes aren't to the language or made with a complete disregard to established beliefs.

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    Language doesn't change, institutions don't change.
    Marriage has been a static institution throughout history.

    It's a joy to watch the fringe right squirm.




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  11. AOW, gay families have been with us for some time.

    Ed's bigotry is not sufficient reason to deny them the civil contract of marriage.

    I think that in a few months when SCOTUS hands down its ruling the right is going to be wailing like wounded beasts.

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  12. Ed's bigotry is not sufficient reason to deny them the civil contract of marriage, because it is non-existent.

    However, finding joy in watching others squirm is kind of weird.

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