Friday, June 27, 2008

Beyond same sex marriage

One of my favorite writer, Jennifer Roback Morse, talks about same sex marriage and the "de-gendering" of society:

The freight train of same sex marriage will not stop at the station called simple "equality." The legal equivalence of same sex couples with opposite sex couples means that marriage will no longer be society’s most reliable method of attaching mothers and fathers to their children and to each other. Marriage will become a gender-neutral creation of the state, which actively detaches children from at least one of their parents. Parentage will not flow automatically from the marital union, but will have to be assigned by the state. The final stop on this train is the complete de-gendering of society, along with the continual incursion of the state into civil society.

The state must hold that mothers and fathers are completely interchangeable. Biological parents married to each other become officially equivalent to one parent plus their lover. The state will be indifferent as to whether children have any connection with their biological parents.

Read the rest here.

via Aggie Catholics

1 comment:

Robert said...

I read somewhere that in Britain, doctors and nurses can't use 'Mother' or 'Father.' (Might offend homosexuals.) And in Spain, they're replacing them on birth-certificates with 'Progenitor A and 'Progenitor B.' (Same reasoning.)