When people realize that the advocates of gay marriage want more than just gay marriage but a radical restructuring of the meaning of marriage it will become even more unpopular.
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Gay marriage was legalised in the UK some months ago. I don't think most people cared much, only the fundis on both sides.
I've never heard any hint of any other agenda using this as a wedge issue for any other changes, not any attempt. That may be the ear or hope of some tiny minority but it's nowhere in mainstream and IMO very unlikely anything ever will be. And even if it were... I can't see anything such passing Parliament, not in my lifetime.
However, all traditional codes of morality have a big problem with homosexuality.
Some, not all. Some don't mention it, or don't seem to care, and one of the classic foundations of western philosophical thought regarded male-male love as the purest and finest.
But leaving this aside, so what? Traditional thought didn't have a whole lot to say about flying, except that it would be bad because it usurped God, is pretty well silent on (say) computers, cars and the whole industrial revolution thing, and in Western thought regarded surgery as a mortal heresy. Also we designated women as chattels and appurtenances of their father or husband with no right to think, own or act independently (unless noble, powerful and very strong-willed plus without a senior male relative). And thought owning slaves was fine, right and justified by tradition and the bible because the sons of Ham were designed by God to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Tradition is not and should not govern our lives, and all that it should teach us is history. Learn from it, maybe... but we should not be ruled by it. |
