MARRIAGE AS THE PLACE TO HAVE CHILDREN; AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Mark Tardiff (posted by Eve)
Mark Tardiff is a Catholic priest writing from Rome.
Individual cases such as
those pointed out by Mr. Miller do not invalidate
the principle that Mrs. Gallagher is upholding [that 'Marriage is the place where we think it is a good idea to have children. ...Therefore, in giving marriage to unisex couples, we are saying that we think it is a great idea of unisex couples to acquire children. We are saying children do not need mothers and fathers']. If individual cases were capable of doing so, then all we have to do to show that SSM is not good would be to find a few cases where a same sex couple were irresponsible or even abusive. Does anyone doubt that such couples exist?
On a somewhat different topic, I find it ironic that Afro-Americans, whose campaign for civil rights homosexual activists appeal to as the model for what they are doing, are one of the groups most strongly opposed to SSM. I do not think it is because they begrudge to others what they have fought for. Rather, as Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond made clear in
his testimony before the Senate sub-committee on the Constitution, it is because they have paid the highest price of any group for the social chaos resulting from fatherless children. Hence they are more sensitive to the threat posed by SSM to the institution of marriage.
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