MARRIAGE AS NORM: Jason Ross replies to Maggie Gallagher

[Jason Ross is a corporate information systems consultant in Dallas, Texas.]

Regarding your post: No, it does not help, because you have still completely disregarded the fact that the promotion of traditional marriage and the acceptance of same-sex marriage need not be exclusive concepts. They are not part of the same ballgame. Same-sex marriage will extend benefits, it will not take them away. Homosexual couples already live together, already raise children, and already and co-exist alongside heterosexual married or unmarried couples. Denying them the right to a legally recognized marriage is not going to lead a significant number of homosexuals into traditional marriages, and the ones that do opt for the socially more acceptable arrangement will be doing far more harm to themselves and to the institution than if they had been allowed to enter into a same-sex union.

The preservation of traditional marriage is as important as you say it is, in my view. It's a social necessity. However, your conclusion that the legalization of same-sex marriage will usher in the inevitiable decline of civilization borders on hysteria. The two are not mutually exclusive enterprises, because they are non-competitive. Your experience should have taught you that the vast majority of people do not choose to be gay any more than they choose to be born male or female.

Your ideology of fear has apparently won, for the time being. Thus, I can only hope that the momentum from both sides will lead to reconciliation instead of continued conflict... but I doubt that this will be the case. I truly wish that individuals such as yourself would use their considerable talents for the benefit of all of our society instead of hoarding them for the bigoted half.
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