What’s the Problem with Same-Sex Marriage?

Photo ~ Bishop Thomas Tobin's Five Problems with Homosexual “Marriage”

What’s the Problem with Same-Sex Marriage?

It’s a sure sign of spring, as predictable as the Red Sox at spring training, the swallows returning to Capistrano, and the flowing of green beer on St. Patrick’s Day. I’m referring of course to the public re-appearance of the determined proponents of homosexual marriage.

It seems that each year at this time the left-leaning columnists, the organized advocates, and the lobbyists at the State House awaken from their hibernation to take-up their perennial campaign to redefine marriage in Rhode Island and impose their personal preferences upon the citizenry of our State.

The public debate about same-sex marriage always includes questions like: “What’s the problem with same-sex marriage?” and “How will it affect my life?” Although these questions have been answered repeatedly and clearly in a variety of contexts, including this column, permit me to summarize once again just some of the problems that accompany the proposal to legalize homosexual marriage.

Five Problems With Homosexual "Marriage"
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“The proposal to legalize homosexual marriage is an attempt to redefine the institution of marriage as it has existed from the very beginning of human history.
It was always a danger, at least in the modern era, as the state’s definition of marriage is simply what judges, pols, or the majority think it can be at any one time. That works fine, up until the state’s definition departs from …More
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“The proposal to legalize homosexual marriage is an attempt to redefine the institution of marriage as it has existed from the very beginning of human history.

It was always a danger, at least in the modern era, as the state’s definition of marriage is simply what judges, pols, or the majority think it can be at any one time. That works fine, up until the state’s definition departs from the actual definition, and society has become conditioned to letting the state determine what a marriage can or can’t be and when it can be ended and resumed.

“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”
—Pope Leo XIII about a hundred and thirty years ago.
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He who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of the debate.

God defines marriage, not the State. God defines marriage as excluding people of the same sex. God states in many places and in many ways that those who engage in homosexual activity cannot be given the conditional but free gift of eternal life. They will perish for all eternity.

Now a State is a secular entity. It will approve of whatever pleases the officials who control it. The problem then become when the State recognizes a form of legal union that God states is illegitimate, and when the State attempts to force people such as myself to treat homosexuals as if they are legitimately married.

The State will insist, as it does today, on teaching your own children in public school that homosexuality is “normal” and that homosexuals have just as much right to “marry” as anyone else does. In fact your child’s teacher may be in such a “marriage”, and take any objection to that relationship quite personally.

The State will insist that employers treat people in such “marriages” just as people who are married as God defines it.

This is going to lead to tyranny and intrusion in personal religious liberty like never before.
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Strangely, the bishop left out one important wrong: that homosexual marriage gives homosexual couples the same opportunity for adoption of children as heterosexual couples have. This exposes adoption agencies to systematic violation of conscience of people working for them, — that the bishop did mention — but the primary victims of the arrangement would be children raised by homosexual parents when a normal family would have been available.
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...same-sex marriage isn’t about procuring civil rights for beleaguered homosexual persons. The recently adopted civil-unions legislation, as ill-advised as it was, it provided the legal protections activists have been lobbying for, but the opportunity has been widely ignored.

Civil unions are just a trojan horse! They had them in New Hampshire,Vermont,and California.....then the gays decided that all the rights of marriage without the word "marriage" created a second class citizen status! Civil unions should NEVER have been granted to them in the first place!