Same-Sex Marriage

No thinking person wants to take rights away from homosexuals or insult them, but the idea of changing the definition of marriage to something that the majority of the community objects to by blatant judicial activism, warrants a debate. There has never been a single religion or moral system in any major part of the world that has ever defined marriage as between members of the same sex. There has always been homosexuality, but it has never been considered anything more the sexual acts.

I believe that marriage is a powerful and important social structure. This social structure has been, until recently, an institution set up by society to create a set of responsibilities around the act of procreation. The principles of marriage for all of recorded history have been to ensure these responsibilities. Since homosexuals cannot in principle procreate then in principle they cannot, by the definition of marriage, marry. It is simply a misunderstanding of a homosexual relationship. Adhering to the principles of marriage in no way demeans a homosexual or takes any right away from them.

So it is obvious that homosexual couples cannot procreate but what if they want to adopt? I believe that homosexual couples should not be allowed to adopt. Not because they are incapable of raising a child or that homosexuals are bad people, but because I believe that a man and a women are fundamentally different. I believe that every child ideally should be brought up with a strong mother figure and a strong father figure, and that this should be the standard for an adoption agency. The higher the standards an adoption agency has the better, there is no shortage of married couples seeking an adoption.

The idea that society is starting to get their values from themselves or there idea of a progressive movement rather then Judeo-Christian values can only be seen as a decay of our Judeo-Christian culture.