LittleNipper wrote:However, we now at an age that demands everyone gets equal acceptance, no matter how spoiled certain behavior patterns are proven to be. In fact, citizens who would just rather be left alone are now being obligated to support, accept and assist those outside the "fold," as it were, who want to be apart without having to abide by the rules and regulations established by social standards inside those various traditional communities.
Traditional marriage has survived thousands of years without committing to those who may not even believe in God. So, why is the government now becoming manipulative in favor of those who now demand what they themselves choose to be. Most homosexuals, if questioned will admit to being bi-sexual. That means that choice of partnership is not entirely psychological but social.
Spoiled certain behavior patterns are proven to be by whom? Is this the 21st century version of "Uppity negroes'?
So in the mind of conservatives, we need a set of absolutes that can't change, which will be pronounced by a majority of those deep into the majority belief system and too bad for any one else. Change is to be avoided.
I have heard predictions of ultimate doom since I was young - The Beatles on Ed Sullivan were the beginning of the end of the world. So was LSD, marijuana and hot pants. Music certainly was going to pollute all the young people and bring the entire country down, down, down. Read the LDS Freedom Forum and count up the times posters proclaim how the end is very near and many of them are doing all kinds of things so that when the big whatever happens and they wake the next day and it is 1850 again, well, they have their go bag and have stocked up to weather the terrible times ahead or just around the corner or over the next hill. My parents and relatives were Birchers - spoke it fluently - and this same idiotic paranoia is spread by Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity etc. and they manipulate huge numbers of under educated or poorly home schooled Americans and get paid millions and millions. Don't like peer reviewed methodically gathered data? No problem, just dismiss the educated in favor of your feelings and intuitions.
Traditional marriage doesn't have quite the consistent history you may believe. It was political very often and helped deal with things that involved wealth and political power and extended to the lower levels as time went on. Matters of thrones and crowns and alliances were the reason (legitimatizing children and the direct bloodline), in large part to keep transitions less bloody and violent.
18 And the man said: The woman thou gavest me, and commandest that she should remain with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree and I did eat. Moses 4:18
