The central issue in the same-sex marriage debate is whether society needs to maintain a heterosexual definition of marriage. People against same-sex marriages have cast it as a debate about the moral, legal and social acceptability of homosexuality and homosexual relationships. And while they admit that homosexual people and their relationships are entitled to respect, including in law, they propose that this should not give gays and lesbians the right to claim access to marriage.
Same-sex marriage proponents argue that marriage is first and foremost about two adults making a commitment to each other. To establish that it is discriminatory to exclude same-sex partners from marriage, gays and lesbians claim that the nature of the commitment between the partners of any same-sex marriage and those of any opposite-sex marriage is identical.
Significant is that the arguments put forward by the same-sex marriage lobby are primarily adult-centred: not surprisingly, the issue of children is of no consequence to them since same-sex unions are, by nature, always barren.
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Dear Henk,
In relation to your comment on same sex marriage, you observe that same sex marriage lobbyists are adult centered – This is not so, in my observation.
Many persons who are same sex attracted have, or have had, or will have, relationships with the opposite sex. They often have children – with no more or less success than the rest of the population.
Relatively few people (in my observation) are incapable of attractions – to both genders. Selectively, of course.
Rae Desmond Jones
(Summer Hill)
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