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Why Homosexual Unions Are Not Marriages
C ATHOLIC
A NSWERS
PRESS
San Diego
2012
Why Homosexual Unions Are Not Marriages
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Today homosexual activists are demanding the legalization of same-sex marriage. In some places they have even achieved this goal.
They assert that this is a matter of equality. If heterosexuals can marry people of the opposite sex, they argue, then equality demands that homosexuals be allowed to marry people of the same sex.
Many have found this argument compelling. Others have no objection to the idea of homosexual marriage. Both of these are grave signs. They reveal just how much damage the institution of marriage has already suffered.
Opponents of homosexual marriage argue that if marriage were redefined to include same-sex couples, then both marriage and families would suffer great damage. That is quite true, but marriage has already been greatly damaged or else the idea that two people of the same sex could marry each other wouldnt even be under discussion.
The fact that it is shows that a large segment of the public does not understand the basics of marriage. They have forgottenor never knewwhat marriage is .
In recent years, several movements have been successful framing their causes in terms of equality. The civil rights movement involved the idea of racial equality. The womens liberation movement involved the idea of sexual equality.
Now homosexual activists are using a similar strategy, claiming that equality requires that homosexuals be allowed to marry each other.
For that to be true there would have to be real equality between homosexuality and heterosexualitythe way there is real equality between persons of different races and between men and women.
But there is no equality between a marriage and a union involving two persons of the same sex. They are fundamentally different things, and pretending that they are the same is indulging in fantasy.
Its time to face reality.
Marriage is a union of a man and a woman that is oriented toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring.
No other kind of union is a marriage. Marriage
is unique.
Since before recorded history, men and women have united to care for each other and to bring up children. That happens in every culture, no matter where in the world. In fact, a culture would die without those unions of men and women. Marriage is thus a human universal, an institution that is built into human nature and that manifests itself in all societies.
This has important implications. As we will see, society is not denying marriage to homosexuals. Instead, homosexual activists are asking society to redefine marriage so that the term applies to things that are not, in fact, marriages.
People of the same sex cannot marry each other because any union between them would not have the reality that marriage possesses.
This is particularly obvious when it comes to procreation. Two men or two women cannot procreate. For new children to be brought into the world, biology requires the union of a man and a woman.
But procreation is not the only issue. Men and women are different in ways that go beyond reproduction. Both physically and psychologically, they complement and complete each other in a manner that two people of the same sex do not.
These differences play an important role in raising children. By setting examples of true fatherhood and motherhood, a husband and wife provide the kind of environment that helps children grow and develop properly.
Even apart from procreation and raising childrenas in the case of marriages which do not result in children due to infertilitythe physical and psychological differences between men and women enable them to unite and thrive in a way two people of the same sex cannot.
In all of these cases, and especially in the case of procreation, it is clear from nature that men and women are designed to be united with each other. Two men or two women are not.
For this reason same-sex unions do not possess the reality of marriage, and it is simply a fiction to call them marriages.
Some ask why society should sanction marriage at all. Isnt it the couples business and nobody elses?
In fact, it is in societys interest to recognize marriage, and that is why societies all over the world, throughout history, have done so. The reason why is obvious: In order to survive and prosper, societies need new members.
They constantly lose memberswhether through illness, accident, war, crime, or simply old age. One way or another, at some point, every single member of a society will die, and if these deaths are not offset by births, then the society itself will die.
Marriage, by its very nature, is the institution that brings new human beings into the world and raises them to be productive members of society. If a society wants to survive and prosper, then, it is in its interest to recognize and help marriage in a special way.
Where marriages and families are threatened, society is threatened, and where marriages and families are strong, society is strong.
Society should not treat homosexual unions as marriages because they are not marriages.
Such unions are incapable, by their very nature, of producing children. The parties do not complement each other the way that a man and a woman do. A homosexual union is a fundamentally different thing than a marriage. It isnt a question of whether society should allow homosexual marriage. It cant. No one can.
The question is whether society will pretend that homosexual marriage exists. Will the state engage in a society-wide fantasy that ignores the basic facts about men and women?
It should notit must notbecause to indulge in delusional thinking about the basic realities of human life can only damage society in profound and permanent ways.
When a country bases its policies on false premises, society suffers. It does not matter what the policy is. If its army misjudges the enemys position, it may suffer a crushing defeat. If its economic policy is out of touch with reality, hard times will result. And if a state becomes delusional about the nature of men and women, disaster is bound to follow.
People have a tendency to think that if something is legal, it must be right, and so the mere fact that a states laws pretend that homosexual unions are marriages would mislead the public on a vast scale, causing millions of people to become deluded about the nature of marriage.
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