Morality on Trial (17)

An online article by Time magazine discusses the current issue of gay-marriage in California. Prop 8 was supposed to outlaw gay marriages, but the public vote didn't solve anything. An appeal to overturn Prop 8 is in the California Supreme Court, and the debate is not going to end after the ruling is issued. The idea has been around for a while that the word marriage be taken out of the picture and replaced with the term "civil union", thus taking religion out of the picture, and allowing straight or gay couples to be legal.

I believe it's a silly idea. So what if marriage is fundamentally religious? A male-female union also happens to be the only relationship of its kind in nature. The primary purpose of marriage is to continue the human race. Put two roosters on an uninhabited island and wait a few years. What will you get? A new colony of chickens? No. Just two dead roosters.

Gay couples who complain about not receiving government benefits have no grounds for their argument. They are incapable of multiplying, so why should they get government goodies reserved for parents? And no, gay couples should not be allowed to adopt and raise children. The family is being destroyed by today's culture. Allowing "civil unions" will be the next step down. Society is not the same as it was a century ago. The questions that are being raised now would never have surfaced then.

If the state allowing civil unions instead of issuing marriage licenses, people will supposedly get equal treatment, but some may be upset that they are not really "married". A change of wording isn't going to really change the true nature of the situation, however. As Seventh-day Adventists, we know that the end is near. We should fight for morality, but eventually there will be nothing more we can do to restrain the evil impulses of mankind.