Relativism and Marriage Part 1

Relativism seems to have its sticky, poisonous fingers into everything, including marriage. Marriage and the family are being defined out of meaning. If any group of people can come together, and be morally and legaly accepted as a family, the term has lost its value. I think the problem partially stems from the relativist (Feminist, Secularist, Gay/Lesbians) attempt to destroy any objective differences between the sexes, and the importance of a sound biological/psychological upbringing. If there are no significant differences between the sexes, then there may be nothing significant about heterosexual fidelity.

Tinkering with something so fundamental to human development will be disastrous, and not because gays or lesbians hate children, but buy changing the legal and moral definition of marriage to achieve equality, they have opened the door for future redefinitons of marriage. If you cannot deny gay and lesbians equal access to marry, how can you deny any other group who demands equality? The gay and lesbian community is seeking to bring social relevance to their relationships through marriage, but in the long run, threaten to undermine the institution they believe socially legitimizes their relationships. When the institution of marriage is defined out of meaning, there goes the social relevance of gay and lesbian relationships.

If the gay and lesbian community argues that marriage does not bring social relevance to their relationships, then why fight for the right to marry? If marriage is just a piece of paper for breeders, why does the homosexual community covet it so overtly? The only purpose in fighting for gay and lesbian marriage is because marriage is something worth fighting for; the problem for gays and lesbians, is that if they succeed, in the long run, they and the rest of us lose. They cannot change the traditional definition of marriage without removing the significance and meaning of the institution. This is not a religious point of view, but a logical consequence of relativism.

TOTT

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