| Marriage (a legally accepted relationship between a woman and a man in which they live as husband and wife, or the official ceremony which results in this) is not a right, it's a privilege (a particular and peculiar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company or society, beyond the common advantages of other citizens.) And with that privilege comes responsibility (the state of being accountable or answerable, as for a trust or office, or for a debt.) I doubt homosexual marriages will ever be accepted because marriage is an institution created by God for a specific purpose. :)
As I have said before, the purpose (the intention; the end or object to be accomplished) of marriage is to establish responsibility for newly created human beings. A marriage is not just a government recognition of a family because--and you know this--a family is more than just a husband and wife. Nor is it a method of establishing legal responsibility for adopted children because--and you know this--an adoption is a legal process in and of itself that covers an entirely different set of circumstances.
The reason homosexual marriage isn't getting anywhere is that the advocates of such unions haven't been able to offer an alternative purpose that marriage exists to fulfill.
Leftist--essentially, a psychopath with an extreme hatred of the society he was born in. Such people typically deny the existence of any permanent moral standards for guiding human behavior, condemn tradition, and propose the establishment of a future society based on an ideology that denies human nature. |