Okay, here's where I go un-politically correct and submarine any future chance I have at the presidency. Jiblog addresses gay marriage.
My first issue is with gay rights advocacy groups claiming that they do not have equal access to marriage. The truth is they do have equal access to marriage, they just choose not to join in unions with the opposite sex. Is this fair? Perhaps not, but there are no guarantees in our constitution that life will be fair.
Ultimately I think the current marriage problem is much deeper than the gay marriage issue. Marriage is ultimately a religous institution. Marriage's role in today's society is a direct result of its historical role in religion as the joining of a man and a woman as one, creating a union to meet the needs of each spouse, as well as the needs of children. Two things have happened which have begun the erosion of marriage. First, marriage became more of a legal union than a spiritual union. Legal bonds are much easier to break than spiritual. The second is the decline of religion. There is little fear of God today and even less regard for the ultimate spiritual consequences of ones actions. These two trends have combined to unravel the institution of marriage.
I'm opposed to gay marriage, but it is merely a symptom of a deeper illness for the institution of marriage. We can allow states to regulate marriage as they please, we can pass a constitutional ammendment, or we can do nothing and allow the Supreme Court to dictate gay marriage legal to us. No matter what we do in that regard, it will not begin to solve marriage's deeper problems.
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