Why are gay marriages wrong?

[Courtneyjo]

All sex is unhealthy, and anal sex specifically – whether hetero- or homosexual – is no exception. Nor, however, is it that much more dangerous than vaginal or oral sex. Monogamy reduces risks, but they still exist.

Breathing’s unhealthy too. Gives you cancer. I heard it best expressed once: ‘Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease’.

Steven: it’s because the language of government includes the term ‘marriage’. Take that word out, put it back in the domain of the churches, and give everyone civil unions; I’m sure you’ll see the end of the issue quite quickly.

This is misdirection.

Normal heterosexual sex is not unhealthy. The organs needed for it are designed and configured for it. The rectum is not designed for sex; it is designed for elimination.

Lungs are meant to be used for breathing. Breathing is not unhealthy. What is inhaled into the lungs can impact lung health, however.

The state has a vested interest in marriage between one man and one woman because marriage encourages responsible reproduction activity, or as another forum poster put it, baby-making activity.

Responsible baby-making activity is good for society. We have lost sight of that and look at the results.

 

[drafdog]

The problem is not a permanent monogomous relationship between committed same sex persons. The problem is the word “marriage.”
There is nothing inherently wrong in forming a permanent monogomous relationship. In fact it is a demonstrably good action. It should be encouraged and recognized in civil law without regard to sexual orientation.
The problem comes when the relationship between same sex persons is called “marriage.” Too many people are upset by the use of that particular word in that circustance.
Until someone comes up with another word for it, we have only one word in the lexicon to describe such a relationship. We will have to put up with it being used in this way because the people objecting to it are spending all their time saying how wrong and harmful it is instead of finding a solution: a new word to apply to it.

Matthew

 

[fix]

The problem is not a permanent monogomous relationship between committed same sex persons. The problem is the word “marriage.”
There is nothing inherently wrong in forming a permanent monogomous relationship. In fact it is a demonstrably good action. It should be encouraged and recognized in civil law without regard to sexual orientation.
The problem comes when the relationship between same sex persons is called “marriage.” Too many people are upset by the use of that particular word in that circustance.
Until someone comes up with another word for it, we have only one word in the lexicon to describe such a relationship. We will have to put up with it being used in this way because the people objecting to it are spending all their time saying how wrong and harmful it is instead of finding a solution: a new word to apply to it.

Matthew

It is not simply the use of the word marriage that is troubling it is the rapacious desire to imitate marriage and obtain legitimacy from the state that is the problem.

… Laws in favour of homosexual unions are contrary to right reason because they confer legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, to unions between persons of the same sex. Given the values at stake in this question, the State could not grant legal standing to such unions without failing in its duty to promote and defend marriage as an institution essential to the common good.

It might be asked how a law can be contrary to the common good if it does not impose any particular kind of behaviour, but simply gives legal recognition to a* de facto* reality which does not seem to cause injustice to anyone. In this area, one needs first to reflect on the difference between homosexual behaviour as a private phenomenon and the same behaviour as a relationship in society, foreseen and approved by the law, to the point where it becomes one of the institutions in the legal structure. This second phenomenon is not only more serious, but also assumes a more wide-reaching and profound influence, and would result in changes to the entire organization of society, contrary to the common good. Civil laws are structuring principles of man’s life in society, for good or for ill. They “play a very important and sometimes decisive role in influencing patterns of thought and behaviour”.(14) Lifestyles and the underlying presuppositions these express not only externally shape the life of society, but also tend to modify the younger generation’s perception and evaluation of forms of behaviour. Legal recognition of homosexual unions would obscure certain basic moral values and cause a devaluation of the institution of marriage…

CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH