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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (32080)	8/25/2000 12:36:47 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Every subgroup that can claim any distinction, does so for the purpose of declaring rights, or entitlements and is bound by the laws and legal processes that bring them such. If you have a system of one set of laws that govern every individual and it works, fine. Our individual circumstances are different. An eight year old girl needs to be bound to a very different set of regulatory guidelines than I do at 48. Gay couples and culture have distinguishing characteristics that carry with them distinct needs. Militant gays who push to be identified as being virtually the same as married heterosexual couples and as deserving of the same entitlements as heterosexual married couples rarely qualify as living with similar circumstances. I have watched the disintegration of the family structure in America for several decades now. This is but one more push to eliminate it as a valuable cultural norm. Maybe you will succeed. I hope not. Gay couples who are not militant have no need to fight the system for legal status and entitlement. The lifestyle itself denies posterity. I doubt whether there are any people who are truly at peace with this lifestyle, which is why there is a continual struggle to have their choice validated by changing the system. Change the system to erase distinction between a family entity and a gay couple and you have effectively made the traditional family obsolete as a legitimate and valued subgroup of society.