What Sodomarriage Really Means
I've said this many times, in many ways, but never with the crisp finality that David Frum does on NRO today:
[T]hree years after we permit gay marriage, it will be illegal for schools to send home printed forms with one blank for the mother's name and one blank for the father's."
Did I say three years? In Canada, it's taken barely one.
In the province of Ontario, the words "wife," "husband," "widow," and "widower" are now all to be stricken from the law. The words "mother" and "father" cannot be far behind.
Ontario's action is a reminder that same-sex marriage is not just the extension of an existing legal status to previously excluded persons. Same-sex marriage is a revolution in the definition of marriage for everyone - a revolution not just in law, but in consciousness.
And one effect of this revolution - and for many proponents, one of the revolution's aims - is to make forever unthinkable the idea that husbands and wives each have special duties to one another, and that a husband's duties to his wife - while equally binding and equally supreme - are not the same as a wife's duties to her husband.
Once we lose that knowledge, we lose the basic grammar of marriage. It is one more reminder that in the same-sex marriage debate, we are debating not marriage's change - but marriage's overthrow.
I recall a homosexual respondent with whom I used to debate this and other "gay" rights topics from time to time. He was a crank, but he was an honest one; he openly argued that heterosexuality has done great and vast harm to humanity down through history, and that mankind would be better off completely divorcing sexuality from reproduction by banning heterosexuality and making homosexuality mandatory.
Usually I would just laugh at him. But that's the thing about the Left anymore - the bigger the crank, the more in their mainstream s/he will be.
I wonder how long it will be before the red portions of the Canadian flag are changed to lavender.
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[T]hree years after we permit gay marriage, it will be illegal for schools to send home printed forms with one blank for the mother's name and one blank for the father's."
Did I say three years? In Canada, it's taken barely one.
In the province of Ontario, the words "wife," "husband," "widow," and "widower" are now all to be stricken from the law. The words "mother" and "father" cannot be far behind.
Ontario's action is a reminder that same-sex marriage is not just the extension of an existing legal status to previously excluded persons. Same-sex marriage is a revolution in the definition of marriage for everyone - a revolution not just in law, but in consciousness.
And one effect of this revolution - and for many proponents, one of the revolution's aims - is to make forever unthinkable the idea that husbands and wives each have special duties to one another, and that a husband's duties to his wife - while equally binding and equally supreme - are not the same as a wife's duties to her husband.
Once we lose that knowledge, we lose the basic grammar of marriage. It is one more reminder that in the same-sex marriage debate, we are debating not marriage's change - but marriage's overthrow.
I recall a homosexual respondent with whom I used to debate this and other "gay" rights topics from time to time. He was a crank, but he was an honest one; he openly argued that heterosexuality has done great and vast harm to humanity down through history, and that mankind would be better off completely divorcing sexuality from reproduction by banning heterosexuality and making homosexuality mandatory.
Usually I would just laugh at him. But that's the thing about the Left anymore - the bigger the crank, the more in their mainstream s/he will be.
I wonder how long it will be before the red portions of the Canadian flag are changed to lavender.
UPDATE: Welcome, Pseudo-Polymath readers! Have a look around, take a load off, and enjoy a tall, frosty beverage in Ten-Forward!
posted by JASmius at 9:35 PM
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