MARRIAGE AND PROCREATION: Stephen White

Andrew Sullivan is a brilliant man, in my opinion, and I've always enjoyed his take on issues that affect the gay community, because he is not the typical strident activist type.

However, I am in absolute agreement with Maggie that marriage is the union in which childrearing can and should take place. It is, I suspect, Biblical in origin, but I think the argument goes something like this: biological urges being what they are, and sexual attraction being a particularly strong urge, in what manner can a society foster some sort of union in which such urges can be given into, which incidentally very often results in the creation of new life? Marriage. Now, the fact that some couples choose not to have children at all, or are biologically incapable of doing so, does not invalidate the institution of marriage as fundamentally being about the sexual union of the two species and the raising of their offspring. Call gay unions whatever you like, but leave the word marriage to those whose union allows the existence of all people, gay and straight alike.

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