There are serious topics related to discussion of same sex marriage. One of these topics is
\nhow to accommodate in our economies the various types of households people form. Another topic is the nature and importance of friendship. However, trying to use the word ‘marriage’ and its cognate terms to characterize homosexual partnerships is frivolous.<\/p>\n
Today there are many ways of forming households. There is need for serious
\ndebate over the privileges, rights and duties of the members of the various types of
\nhouseholds. We do not, though, live by bread alone. We guide our lives by words,
\nsymbols , concepts. Words can hurt words. When our valuable words are hurt we are
\nhurt. \u2018Marriage\u2019 is still a valuable word. Thus pro-homosexuals are grasping for it. If
\nthey get it, what the word conveys won\u2019t be worth wanting. (As noted in my Dec. 18
\nBlog Post classing a gay couples living together as married is unlikely to give positive
\nmoral status to their sexual acts.) All of us will live on with the loss of a valuable ideal for guiding the important and demanding roles of male\/female bonding.<\/p>\n
The sexual dysfunction of same sex attraction is an affliction. The possibility of
\nsome of the most rewarding of human relations is lost. The loss is not recovered by
\nstealing the name \u2018marriage.\u2019 Friendship is a consolation . Marriage is more and less
\nthan friendship. Married people frequently love one another and sometimes become
\nfriends. But \u201cbottom line\u201d marriage is duty. Friendship between men is rare. It is to be
\nenvied and respected. But to call it marriage is to make both the friendship and marriage
\ncomic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are serious topics related to discussion of same sex marriage. One of these topics is how to accommodate in our economies the various types of households people form. Another topic is the nature and importance of friendship. However, trying to use the word ‘marriage’ and its cognate terms to characterize homosexual partnerships is frivolous. … Continue reading The serious vs. the ridiculous in discussion of gay marriage<\/span>