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Gay marriage: an argument against : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 1/8/2012Gender division cannot simply be erased because gays want to push their egalitarian agenda to the last bastion: marriage.
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homosexuality on the carbon tax (joking).
Seriously though - as I've written in the past -
each society views its own patterns of marriage,
family, and kinship as self-evidently right and
proper (and usually as God-given as well).
Much of the current concern about the fate of
marriage stems from this kind of ethnocentrism.
If we believe that there is only one "right"
marriage form, then naturally any change will
be interpreted as heralding the doom of the whole
institution.
It is important, to recognise, therefore, that
there is an immense range in marriage, family,
and kinship patterns; that each of these patterns
may be, at least in their own context, perfectly
viable; and above all, that marriage, like any other
social institution, must inevitably change through
time, in our own society, as in all others.
Same-sex marriage will undoubtedly take place in this
country. It's not a question of "If," but a question of
"When." Hopefully a conscience vote in Parliament will
help settle this matter once and for all.