The essay on gays’ impact on marriage seems to be more about how to maintain heterosexual marriages as opposed to why gays should not be allowed to marry. The author speaks of the sexual revolution and the pill, legalized abortions, and unmarried cohabitation and the effect on marriages. This simply has nothing to do with allowing gays the right to marry. In fact, it seems that it has more in common with women’s rights than it does with gay marriage.
So the author thinks marriage is harmed by anything that may diminish its privileged status. The author may be right to some degree, however, that is a very broad statement and can be directed at many things other than gays having the right to marry. Anyone who has been married knows that marriage is much more than man and woman, united in a relationship, raising children. Marriage is about love and respect for your partner along with sharing and commitment. This should not be reserved for just heterosexuals wishing to be married.
Last the author states the purpose of marriage is to give children born of this marriage a healthy and safe environment. According to psychologists, it is the love and commitment of the parents that give children this healthy and safe environment. What happens to the children born of a heterosexual marriage that ends in divorce with one or both parents’ entering into a gay relationship? Children do not care if their parents are the same sex or opposite sex. It is the critics that care and continue to breed hate and discontentment and these critics then pass this on to their children. Some of these same critics say end the war in Iraq, but do not give a second thought to continuing the war against gay marriage. Could it be the critics were raised by the s ...