Why are those religious folks so against gay-marriage anyhow? Slate magazine published an article several years ago answering the question of why gay marriage doesn't fly with orthodoxy. And you guessed it: either it's going to undermine the very fabric of our society or it's just plain wrong. Two hefty charges against love between the same-sex.
Steven Waldman, the article's author, goes ahead to slay these accusations. But he could have taken a different route to tearing down the arguments. The first one is especially interesting. Gay marriage, the religious people suppose, will destroy the structure of our society by cheapening the faithful bond between a man and a woman that apparently is society's base support. Waldman argues that gay marriage will not cause said calamity. I say, not only will gay marriage not lead to the downfall of the race, it wouldn't be replacing a natural structure anyhow. Though the research could turn out to be limited, marriage is arguably an artificial fix for societal problems that arise with populations over that of small-band societies. If marriage is somewhat symbolic now, then it has hard to say that it is living up to its solutonesque origination. And if marriage is merely symbolic, letting homesexuals marry would simply be replacing a symbolism for a symbolism. Society might thus be saved from doom.
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