Five Predictions About Same-Sex “Marriage”
August 24, 2009
5 Predictions About Gay Marriage By Maggie Gallagher
National Review Online
I don’t like games of “gotcha.” Which is why when Steve Chapman asked me to make predictions for his newspaper column about how gay marriage will affect marriage in various states, I “politely declined,” as he noted in his column. He did not note the reason I declined: A project to document institutional change should be done in a serious way. As an old “marriage debate” person, I am highly aware of the lessons of the 1970s – how “off-the-cuff” journalistic-type measures purporting to be scholarly affected the public debate over first divorce, and then no-fault divorce. I would welcome a serious project by serious people, across ideological lines, to try to design a serious study.
But the game of “gotcha” having been begun by Steve let me make a few preliminary predictions about the short-term effects of same-sex marriage:
- In gay-marriage states, a large minority of people committed to traditional notions of marriage will feel afraid to speak up for their views, lest they be punished in some way.
- Public schools will teach about gay marriage.
- Parents in public schools who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will be told with increasing public firmness that they don’t belong in public schools and their views will not be accommodated in any way.
- Religious institutions will face new legal threats (especially soft litigation threats) that will cause some to close, or modify their missions, to avoid clashing with the government’s official views of marriage (which will include the view that opponents are akin to racists for failing to see same-sex couples as married).
- Support for the idea “the ideal for a child is a married mother and father” will decline.
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Pennsylvania for Marriage agrees with Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, that same-sex “marriage” will adversely affect both children and adults who believe that marriage is the union of husband and wife. The Pennsylvania Legislature holds the key to the future of marriage in the Commonwealth. Pass a marriage protection amendment and let the people decide!
For more information, visit www.PA4Marriage.org or call 717-657-4990 x106.
September 4th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I agree, and am very concerned with the direction liberal activist are steering our country. I pray that conservatives will begin to speak out.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I agree with Ms. Gallagher. We also have to teach our kids at home, because right now, they’re pushing to teach kids in grade school, that their lifestyle is OK. What moral values are we teaching them or anyone else? Our youth today need good role models to look up to. Yes, even a Gay person, if they have good moral values and live a respectful and Honorable life!!!! I look at who the person IS and what they have made of themselves, NOT what there lifestyle is!!! The Gay community has to stop shoving there agenda into our faces. If we want to accept it we will, if not, then let’s go on with our lives. But let me live it how I choose to, NOT how YOU want me to! I’m not pushing my lifestyle in your face. Don’t push yours into mine!! I expect you to respect my beliefs too and move on!!!! You are NOT more special than me, so I don’t appreciate having to treat you as one. If you WANT to be respected, then respect me too!!! Let’s leave politics out of it please. Life is too short.
September 7th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I agree we need to protect our children from the onslaught of the gay agenda being forced upon them in every public area of their lives. I think it confuses children, especially those adolescents that are trying to figure out who they are. Our absolute standards of morality are being shattered and everyone is just doing what they feel is right in their own eyes. Children are looking for truth in their lives; absolute, constant values to shape their lives.
I have never seen or heard of homosexual animals, they just live the way they were created. They don’t do unnatural things. Perhaps we could learn something from observing their behavior.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
1. There are no facts to back this statement !!! It’s not ’straight’ bashing that’s been going on by a few “good Americans” but there are plenty ‘gay bashings’ that go on every day, by those that think like you.
2. Schools need to teach the three ‘R’s and haven’t the need to teach either “marriages” one way or the other.
3. Aren’t you doing the same but in reverse !!! And this is to fellow tax paying Americans just like you !!!
4. This comment is a “made up guess” and a promotion that just doesn’t show anywhere other than in comments by those of you that “spin” the issue to gather support.
5. Why are you so afraid that a same-sex couple will show you up ? What is it ??? nearly 60% or more?? failed hetro-marriages? When children are bounced around from one “ideal” home to another, maybe a less than “ideal” home would be next to heaven for them. There are MANY happy gay families with happy & productive children.
May I add a thought? Where in the constitution does it say that one group of citizen are be given special priviledges and another be denied the same. “Life, Liberty and The Persute of —??? happiness !!!