Gay marriage on the way
by Derek W. on February 2nd, 2006
I’m sitting here at my college’s library, typing on a computer. I just got out of a Sociology class where, after a lecture on domestic abuse, the professor decided to have a class discussion about gay marriage.
For the record, this is the professor who has, in previous classes, praised Karl Marx for having “a lot of good things to say,” condemned the U.S. government for not building houses for the homeless, criticized Bush for his supposed mistreatment of Muslims post 9/11, and so on and so forth.
In short, I am stuck in a class with a professor who is the perfect example of the far-left professors who dominate our nation’s (mostly) far-left universities. (Thank goodness for places like Hillsdale College and Patrick Henry College, no?)
Anyway, it appeared that a large majority of the kids in this class saw nothing wrong with gay marriage. Of course, maybe it just appeared that way since maybe all the conservative kids (like me) stayed mostly quiet. But on an estimate, I’d say that probably two/thirds of the class appeared to support gay marriage.
If this is any indication of what’s on the way for our nation, gay marriage is coming soon. And there won’t be anything we as conservatives will be able to do. Right now a majority of Americans oppose gay marriage, but how many of those Americas are, say, 40 years and older? In 20 years, our population will have changed, and it seems to me that our population will be growing more liberal. And there is nothing we can really do about it.
Depressing thought, no? I agree. Sitting through a college class like this is the most depressing things a conservative can do. Especially when you listen to some of the things students (and the professor say):
Gay marriage won’t affect heterosexuals, so why should they object?
If two people love each other, they should be allowed to marry, and it doesn’t matter if they’re the same sex.
And so on and so forth. My question to our readers is this: what do you think is the most effective way to refute the above arguments? And what do you think about the future of our country?
8 Comments
Adam Graham
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
I think a couple things are basically true. First of all, conservative kids do shut up in classes like this, because they’re their to get a grade and go on with their education.
Also, a lot of the kids are, to be nice, naive sheep. They’re going to swallow whatever their professor are teaching and the teachers are going to be liberals because for most Conservatives, its too hard to be a Conservative in Academia. The world in college is really an ivory tower, seperate from the outside world. Only when you get out of college, do you see the real world and when that happens, a lot of people move rightward.
Really, it comes down to a fundamental question of what marriage is. If Marriage is just about the individuals involved, then honestly who cares?
But the reason the state recognizes marriage is because of its value to society. If it was about love or feelings, that we’d have special licenses for being a friend or going steady. Clearly, the reason we don’t is the state truly has no interest in who my friends are, so I don’t have to go and get a friends license.
Only one relationship is licensed and recognized historically by the state, and that’s marriage. The reason Derrick the state recognizes marriage is Biological. If children are born, we want to see to it that they have a stable home. Now, some will ask about infertile couples.
Infertility is unfortunate but the fact is that its incidental to the couple’s relationship. While two men or two women are never going to be able to have a child on their own, no matter what happens, a man and woman have that potential, and what stops that from happening is incidental.
We also recognize that marriage is fundamental to our society. Its not only the most stable environment for a child, its the best environment to raise a child as study after study has shown.
Marriage is about society, its about the type of families we have. To say we should be unconcerned about it because we’re hetrosexuals is absurd because the state of our society concerns us. Think about the spat out of wedlock births and the crime and violence that’ve come out of single parent homes. (Not to say all single parents are bad, but the lack of both parents in the home leads to many problems.)
No man is an island. If we as society actively encourage relationships that aren’t good for children, aren’t good for families, and aren’t good for society, we will reap the consequences, whether we’re gay or straight.
tgage
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Derek your observtions may be correct, but your conclusion is somewhat faulty. People are most liberal in their teens and twenties, and then when they become tax payers they generally speaking become more conservative.
Many of our generation are actually much more conservative than the flower child generation that constitutes our parents. While some of our peers are raging liberals right now, many convert after they get out of the classroom [utopia] and enter business [the real world].
Sam Ashwood
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:33 pm
One thing my Dad often points out, which is probably true, is that many people who would oppose homosexuality are afraid to open their mouths, because they lead immoral lives themselves (e.g., extramarital affairs). They’re afraid if they oppose one form of sexual immorality, theirs might be attacked next, and so they keep their mouths shut. Only an improvement in the moral structure of the nation, which only God can bring about, can halt the descent into gross immorality. We sure aren’t going to get any help from Academia, or the vast majority of politicians.
Derek W.
February 2nd, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Thanks for the comment, Adam. I agree with most of what you said, and I think you brought up some excellent points.
tgage: I honestly hope my conclusion is faulty, but I’m genuinely afraid that it is more or less true. You obviously hold an optimistic view and I think you make some valid points, but what I see every day in the real world forces me to take a more cynical outlook on where this country is going. I’m not sure what the polls show, but I doubt that more than 70 percent of our population oppose gay “marriages”. That means 30 percent have no problem with it—and that’s probably a 29.9 percent increase over, say, 60 years ago. And I just don’t see any signs indicating that number will go down again—instead, all the signs seem to indicate that number will go up.
It seems to me painfully obvious that “gay marriage” is an . . oxymoron? Is that the word? I’m not sure. But it just seems so ridiculously clear that there can be no such thing as a same-sex marriage. The two terms contradict each other; they can’t co-exist. And yet, people today see no problem with that. Is there any way to try to effectively witness to them in this regard?
William Richards
February 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
How do you know about Hillsdale?
Derek W.
February 8th, 2006 at 11:28 am
I don’t know where I first heard about Hillsdale, but I’ve known about it for quite a while. I strongly considered attending college there, actually.
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March 10th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
[...] In the past, I’ve written several posts about experiences I’ve had with liberalism in various college classes, including a “social problems” class where we have “discussed” gay marriage and the teacher has praised Karl Marx, and an art class where the teacher appeared to think that images of the Statue of Liberty and American flag were inappropiate, “loaded images.” [...]
Hailey Holt
October 10th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I currently attend a social problems class at my college, and we recently discussed this topic. Many of my classmates were open to discuss this. Although, it did seem many did not oppose gay marriage, there were some that felt very srongly on the issue. Many even described themselves as homophobic. Altough I do believe that society will approve someday soon of gay marriage it will always be a sensitive issue with many. Also, I live in Tennessee, there are many homosexuals here,but it really isn’t that excepted overall. I think it all depends on environment also.