Week 2: Threats to Marriage

After reading through articles and journals this week I have gained a greater look into the real fight and debate about the actual definition of marriage and what it stands for. In “The Attack on Marriage as the Union of a Man and a Woman” I read so many things that caught my attention. First, that as of late 1985, no nation permitted same-sex couples to marry or had created any kind of marriage-equivalent legal union of r same-sex couples. As well as that in 2000 same-sex marriage was not legal in any nation, and domestic partnership was only recognized in one nation. But fast-forward fifteen more years and we have officially legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. The fight for marriage between a man and a woman has heated up and now we have to take a stance for what we believe.
            The paper pointed out some of the harmful effects that same-sex marriage legalization will have on the institution of marriage, children, families, and society. And how it will be a subtle and gradual effect to the point where we won;t realize it till the damage is done. It’s like cancer; you don’t always realize the damage until it is done and irreversible. I really liked this quote from the journal:

“Marriage establishes the moral core of the family and the moral baseline and standards for society in many ways… Marriage is society’s cultural infrastructure…(it) cultivates a morality of live and sacrifice”.

            I watched a video where Ryan Anderson debated marriage with Piers Morgan and Suze Orman and it honestly angered me. He was making a statement about his opinion and his belief and she proceeded to call him ignorant and uneducated. He was obviously well educated because of his status in the community of marriage and family. Maybe he doesn’t have the same view as Suze but she was just condescending. He was trying to explain that the definition of marriage should be between a man and a woman and that if same-sex couples want to become spouses it should be called something else. He never said he doesn’t want them to have the same rights but Piers and Suze both made it sound like that. He stood his ground in an argument set up to make Suze sound good and in essence win the argument. This is the video of Ryan Anderson, you can decide for yourself what you think of the clip.

No matter your view on marriage or your personal definition on marriage, you have to look at the facts for yourself and come to your own conclusion, will the new legalization of gay marriage have a negative effect on our children and how they view marriage?