Ahem. It seems that my last post was not completely understood by some liberals in the audience. My "lofty rhetoric," seems to confuze them, though this is all college-level stuff, thus proving one of my points in this post from last week. I don't think my point from that post was clear enough, that students today are not getting a well-rounded enough education, I point I brought up to some elected representatives in Delaware earlier tonight when they asked about the "Three Tiered Diploma" system that lies in wait to further hurt public school students. But I digress.

They are not sure how my argument applies to gay marriage, so I am going to try to make it simple., and do it premise-conclusion format, for ease of reading.

Premises (The "I" here represents not only me, but the countless others who do):

1. I Believe in the Judeo-Christian God, that He is good, and everything He made is good.
2. God made Man & Woman, for the purposes of procreation (being fruitful and multiplying). This premise is also known as the "Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve" argument.
3. I believe that marriage, as a religious/cultural institution, is the recognition, by the community, of the love between a man and woman. Here in the United States, this is recognized by the Church of which the couple belongs and the State.
4. Being homosexual in and of itself is not wrong, but following homosexual urges is sinful (or at the very least, none of my business)
5. Allowing homosexual "marriage" would force me to recognize something I philosophically, religiously, and morally do not recognize, and view as illogical.
   
6. I am oppressed by others forcing their values on me, in what may be an essentially non-democratic manner due to the activism of the Courts.
   

Conclusion: Gay "marriage" hurts marriage because it takes away the value of the union of man and woman in the eyes of God.

Now, if you (for whatever reason) believe this is not true, and believe that there is no God (who killed him? I suspect Ché), and believe all moral is objective, and do not value human life, Western values, or equality, then you may disagree, but this is where I stand and why. I think it is a sound argument, given the premises.

Posted by Ryan S. on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 1:59 AM | Permalink |