B.P. Terpstra
It’s interesting how the Left and adults-first libertarians have tried to shift our attention away from marriage responsibilities toward marriage rights. Chris Berg of the Institute of Public Affairs is a perfect example. Today I’d like to revisit and cut down more of his made-for-Hollywood arguments.
It’s interesting how the Left and adults-first libertarians have tried to shift our attention away from marriage responsibilities toward marriage rights. Chris Berg of the Institute of Public Affairs is a perfect example. Today I’d like to revisit and cut down more of his made-for-Hollywood arguments.
Says Berg: “Yet there is a strong conservative argument for legalising gay marriage. Conservatives who decry the decline of marriage as an institution are right. Straight people have been undermining the sanctity of marriage for decades. This is a bad thing.”
Really? Perhaps adults-first libertarians, who decry the decline of free-markets, should adopt socialism because some government-friendly businesses have been undermining capitalism. No? Yes?
Essentially, Berg feels that conservatives should focus on how some heterosexuals have trashed their marriage vows, in order to trash the institution some more. Forgotten, however, is this hard-to-hide fact: Conservatives correctly warned us how our expressive divorce revolution would undermine the institution of marriage, while feminist lesbians screamed for its destruction.
Needless to say, conservatives don’t design and/or bless more fatherless families when fatherless boys are dominating our gangs and jail systems. I’m sorry but sociology and psychology can’t be erased from economic realities.
Alas, Berg pontificates: “In the past few years, a number of countries have adopted gender-neutral definitions of marriage. Opponents of gay marriage should reveal how they predict straight marriage will be harmed? Early indications suggest it has not been harmed.”
A “number” – meaning, of course, a handful of socialist states with a history of promoting Orwellian thought crimes and Newspeak.
But I digress. Opponents of gay marriage have revealed how gay marriage does harm society, but are ritually censored by the very papers and online sites Chris Berg writes for! They have been edited out of context or hidden for decades, as well, when they’ve dared to speak out against the dangers of designer fatherless and motherless families.
Indeed, I, for one, applaud France’s lower house of parliament for rejecting a bill that would allow same-sex marriage this week. Or as UMP lawmaker Michel Diefenbacher said, “We are against homophobia but we do not want to alter the image and function of marriage in the collective subconscious.”
It’s an argument Berg fails to grasp. Another, made by Doctor Jennifer Roback Morse: “We sometimes hear claims that studies show that same sex couples make fine parents. The most recently reported study was in the June 7, 2010 issue of the journal Pediatrics…This study was based upon the self-reported results of an unrepresentative sample of lesbian mothers of 78 teenagers, hardly a sufficient data set for drawing sweeping conclusions.”
Moreover, this is a social experiment, so while we see how opposite-sex marriages have survived over centuries, gay marriage cheerleaders can only provide us with a few rigged-looking studies over years, period. “Let us be clear: the alternative to the biological principle for determining parentage is the principle that the government decides who is a parent. Instead of simply recording parentage, the state will determine parentage, not in exceptional cases, but routinely. This is what ‘getting the state out of the marriage business’ will eventually come to mean.”
Is Berg for or against polygamy too, and why?
We have seen how the feminist-inspired expressive divorce revolutions encouraged more government in our lives through taxpayer-funded welfare and speech codes, if we know what real government interference is. For more equality, as defined by the thought police, often equals more government intervention, more thought crime laws, and more father-hungry boys. I’m sorry Chris Berg is siding with made-for-Hollywood rainbow visions over time-honored truths.