On Lawn's Journal: Appreciating the Beauty of Marriage: A Study of Equity

This may be suprising to some, but I actually view equality to be a primary consideration in defining marriage. Too often we pit ideologies against each other that are not mutually exclusive or incompatible, in this case it is equality and marriage. Marriage is perfectly equal already.

So far I've established how the act of re-defining marriage is oppressive, and creates an unequal burden to the state to sponser the homosexual lifestyle. I've pointed out how government officials are abusing their authority for an unjust cause.

But in my recent discussions its dawned on me that the same-sex marriage advocates simply do not know just how equal and fair marriage is. They say that marriage like slavery needs to be altered by the courts. They simply do not understand the philisophical, political, physical and emotional diversity that goes into creating a marriage is the key to its equality. They do not understand that advocating same-sex marriages undermines the equity in marriage, it does not increase it.

Philisophically we see that in most creation epics that God starts the creative process by making distinctions; day and night, land and water, even waters from the waters! This shows is literarily what we understand intuitively, that distinction and creativity go hand in hand.

Physically and emotionaly we can turn to evolution to understand the beauty of marriage. For even if we look at the two forces evolution typically puts in competition; genetic or environment, we come up with a simular conclusion --distiction gives health and a certain breadth of experience and domain. Without distinction we cannot have choice, without diversity (a product of distinction) we fall prey as a whole to the same environmental factors.

Marriage is a creative process, and interestingly enough its also built on distinction. It is built on the very physical and emotional differences between a mother and a father. Both bring something unique and beneficial to the family they create. That is why the word "Marriage", which means two different things combine to create a new thing, describes this relationship so well. Indeed this diversity could account for why marriage is healthier not only for the children produced by it but it is healthier for the participants as well.

Politically we see that when it all boils down, the fact that marriage has representation from both sexes is an inexcapable benefit. How more equal can you get! Our federal government gets representation from every state, the UN gets representation from every country. the words of the founding fathers show they understood how distinction and diversity in government are a defence against oppression. And with marriage the way it is, a family gets equal representation and diversity in its conception.

So if there is nothing about marriage we need to change it is our appreciation of it. Marriage already is a fair and equitable institution. Its as fair and equitable as it gets.

Marriage is Union of Sexual Diversity

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That is why the word "Marriage", which means two different things combine to create a new thing, describes this relationship so well.

That's why it's bogus to say that anybody wants to "ban" gay marriage. "Gay marriage" is a contradiction in terms.

Marriage is defined by the union of diversity. Putting the two together makes them a complete single entity like two pieces of a two-piece puzzle. Each brings to the relationship what only he or she is able to do, deriving from each's respective sex. Together,