Paradise Under Your Feet — Page 194
194 constitute the general rule, if anything, as the saying goes, exceptions prove the rule! In the cases of elderly people marrying with no plans for children, it still continues to foster a healthy marriage culture and does not distract one iota from the ideal of young people marrying for companionship and ultimately having children. It should be noted here that an odd challenge is often hurled by homosexual activists and their sympathizers: homosexual ‘ marriage ’ legalization will not hurt your heterosexual marriage, so why worry? In reality, open promotion of same- sex relations will further hurt society in the long run, leading to further confusion among youth as they come of age. In addition to gender confusion issues, homosexuality is typically accompanied with a host of other psychiatric issues (e. g. depression, body image problems, anxiety, substance abuse), even in those countries that are very tolerant of homosexuals, so persecution cannot be blamed. Furthermore, what they fail to realize is that it was a weak marriage culture and disintegrating sexual moral standards in the first place for years that has given rise to such prominence of homosexuality in the public arena. So the damage has already occurred, and we are seeing the end results. Objection: At one time, interracial marriages were not allowed, and now it is same-sex “ marriages. ” Society continues to ‘ progress ’ and opponents of same sex marriage are standing in the way. In response, note that interracial marriage is still the joining of male and female gender, so the basic definition remains. It was thus wrong for a society to ban such marriages since gender is an essential property of marriage, not skin color.