Gay Marriage

Here we are, just sixteen years after a bipartisan House and Senate voted 80% to 20% in favor of the "Defense of Marriage Act" and a Democratic president signed the bill. (Senate: 85-14; House: 342-67) And somehow, our current president feels like he can get away with allowing this DOMA to go undefended in court. In 1995, there was no question that "gay marriage" was a political bombshell and no politician would dare support it. Even before the 2008 campaign, Senator Obama said he was against "gay marriage."

And with all of this powerful influence on legislators you'd think that the "gay" population was suddenly booming, when in fact it is something like 2.3% of the population. "The most widely accepted study of sexual practices in the United States is the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS). The NHSLS found that 2.8% of the male, and 1.4% of the female, population identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. See Laumann, et al, The Social Organization of Sex: Sexual Practices in the United States (1994). This amounts to nearly 4 million openly gay men and 2 million women who identify as lesbian.” link

I don't get it. Where is the outrage? My own state of Maryland is on the precipice of legalizing same sex marriage, despite the fact that a large number of Democrats are also Catholics, at least in name. The Bible says it's wrong. Biology says it's wrong. Recent news on certain communicable diseases demonstrate that these sexual practices are wrong.

I do admit that the way my side has framed the debate is all wrong. "Defense of marriage." "Save marriage." The gays are right that their marriage does not threaten any normal marriage. Divorce threatens marriages. Sexual relations outside of marriage threaten marriage.

But it's just wrong! And I don't want to have my children thinking that it is right. Bigamy and polygamy are wrong, right? Marrying close relatives is wrong, right? I am convinced that these people are deluded into believing that they are "oriented" this way when I believe they have a choice to do what they do. And by appeasing them with "gay unions," "gay marriage," "gays" in the military, we do them no help. It is a mental condition and they have given up on fighting it just as other mental conditions exist.

The irony is that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s gave people freedom to have sexual relations outside of the traditional marriage relationship. Living together became accepted. And now the gay lobby says they want to have their version of 1950's "Ozzie and Harriet" relationships.

How about this -- let's pass a law banning sex outside of any marriage -- homosexual or heterosexual. Make us all go back to the 1950s. No more promiscuity for anyone. Somehow, I don't think the gay community would go for that. They like gay sex too much!