By Selwyn Duke
In case you’re wondering, I’m using the word “cannot” properly in the above title. No, I don’t mean “same-sex couples should not marry” — rather, they aren’t capable of doing so. What am I talking about?
Barack Obama’s coming out party notwithstanding, the question in this debate should never be one of rights. It should be one of definitions. If we accept that marriage is, by definition, the union between a man and woman and nothing else, the faux-marriage-rights argument is moot.
For you cannot have a right to that which doesn’t exist.
This isn’t just semantics. If social engineers insist on pushing faux marriage, we must demand that they first attempt to redefine the institution.
“Have you gone off your rocker, Duke?! This is precisely what we’re fighting!” some will now say.
Actually, no, it isn’t.
This is because there is no widely accepted and professed alternative definition to fight. For the Left has not sought to redefine marriage.
They are “undefining” it.
Read the rest here.
BALONEY. Long ago, many Americans were just as appaled by th eprospect of allowing blacks and women to vote, allowing blacks to serve along whites in the military, and allowing blacks and whites to marry.
Did society collapse ? Of ocurse not.
Posted by: Robert Berger | May 17, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Solid argument, Selwyn. This is absolutely the best I've seen on the marriage debate.
Posted by: peachy | May 17, 2012 at 02:41 PM
You're just repeating libtard talking points, Berger. Gays already have civil unions. It's enough. The hoopla surrounding the idea of same sex marriage is nothing but a spectacle of exhibitionism and vacuous emotional processing. Gays aren't being denied anything really. What the authors of this movement want is to make inroads in their continuing battle to force their flights of fancy on the rest of us. I for one don't want to live according to the whims of a bunch of bored, petulant narcissists.
Let them have hobbies!
Posted by: Laura Ashley | May 17, 2012 at 02:51 PM
"Marriage" is not the Left's to redefine. Marriage is a Sacrament of The Church.
Posted by: rjp | May 18, 2012 at 09:51 AM