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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (72184)	8/11/2003 10:58:49 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

As to getting the horse back in the barn, I discussed that in one post. Social mores tend to be cyclical. We're in a period now where the folks who were in the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the 60s are now adults and are in many cases pressing these changes (Robinson, for example, is a child of that age.) But there is a clear trend that young people today are far more conservative, are more interested in traditional morals such as protecting their virginity before marriage. Combine this with the upswelling on fundamental Christianity and I think we're about to see the pendulum swing back and chase that horse, if not all the way back into its stall, certainly back into the paddock and maybe into the barn. Sort of like the change from the flapper era of the gay 90s to the sobriety of the mid century. These cycles take time, but they do happen. As long as we don't put too many barriers in their way. And you and I are apparently agreed that codifying homosexual marriage could make it much more difficult to return to the traditional marital relationships which we both agree are the optimal environment for raising children. You and I just differ, then, in whether we can recover. I think so, and I think history is on my side.