Two Views on Same-Sex Marriage

Townhall.Com today has two very different articles on Same Sex marriage.



The first is another example with what is wrong with the arguments being used by many on the Right on this issue. Chuck Colson puts forth his argument against recognizing marriaged between gay or lesbians by noting one expert's observations that homosexual relationships do not tend to be as monogamous or permanent as heterosexual relationships. Thus, he argues, recognizing same sex marriages is akin to ending the religious foundation that marriage was founded upon. With divorce epidemic in hetero-sex marriages, I fail to see how this observation - assuming it is true - provides a firm foundation to stand upon. It did raise one interesting question in my mind, though: Would Conservatives be willing to allow same sex marriages, if we de-legalized divorce? That would take care of the issues of monogamy and permanence for both sides.



The second is a few better article and one that deserves further reading and research. Maggie Gallagher interviews an adult who was a child of a same-sex couple who talks about the effects being raised in such a situation had on her life. The long and the short of it? Despite having two parents who loved her, she always felt manipulated or part of some strange experiment. She feels she did not grow up "normally" and can see the weaknesses in her life that a father may have prevented. She also feels that studies on same-sex children so far have not been fair to the children, or representative of the reality of growing up in this kind of family. We need more articles like this!



For the record, I am opposed to legalization of same-sex marriage. But I think both sides are moving too fast to provide good public policy. Legalizing gay marriage or a Constitutional ammendment against it are equally the political equivilent of dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima. Do you think we were really ready for the aftermath of that one?