Polygamy may very well be next. I think that sanctioned pederasty may follow.
I see many threads where gay marriage is argued, and its proponents invariably say something like “why are you picking on gays? Heterosexuals have already destroyed marriage.”
And they are right. It is true that same sex marriage must of necessity deprive a child of either a mom or a dad. But so does divorce. So does serial monogamy. Cohabitation deprives children of a real family. Fornication and adultery deprive sex of meaning. Children live now with the awareness that their family can be broken up at the whim of either parent. Contraception deprives children of brothers and sisters. Abortion kills off a fourth of their siblings.
So it’s not that same sex unions will destroy marriage. Same sex unions are thinkable only because marriage has already been destroyed.
Few even wish to commit to traditional marriage vows: for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death shall rip us apart.
Not at all. Now, we prefer, for better, for richer, and in good health and ‘as long as love shall last.’ Forget that sickness and poorer and till death stuff. That might cause us to bail.
Now, marriage is a natural institution, but the natural law argument no longer holds water, because people want what they want, natural or not. It’s about personal rights, not love. It’s about fulfillment, not sacrifice for another.
But because marriage IS a natural institution, it will eventually be restored. I just don’t think it will be able to restore itself until civilizations has gone through the next dark age which has been brought on by the dissolution of the family.
