Recent rants and complaints from those set on redefining marriage in our state are severely misguided. The New York State Senate should be applauded for its courageous stand against those very well-financed special interest groups who have their own selfish agenda in mind in their quest to appease their guilty consciences by redefining marriage into a relationship of convenience.
Now that sodomy laws have been taken off our law books, homosexuals have every reasonable right that heterosexuals enjoy. For anyone to suggest that preventing people of the same sex from marrying each other is bigotry, is equivalent to suggesting that rules about marrying sisters, brothers, parents or minors are also bigotry.
The civil government is charged with upholding those ideals that will benefit the common good and must defend those principles that maintain the greatest cohesion for our society. Redefining marriage on the illogical premise that "love is all that counts," is like saying marriage can be defined by any arrangement of people regardless of their qualifications of being a parent and a spouse.
God clearly designed marriage to be a complementary relationship where the maleness and femaleness of the human persona can be seen in a family unit and where children can benefit from the complementary viewpoints of the two different gendered parents. Even the animal kingdom testifies to the necessity of having the two opposite genders leading a "family."
Should marriage be redefined, not only will children be deprived of knowing their biological mothers and fathers, but the sacredness of the marriage bond will be fatally compromised by this systematic redefinition of what marriage and family mean.
As history testifies through every empire or republic that has fallen: "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered."
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