Here’s why it’s impossible to debate so-called “gay marriage”.
It’s not that those who support it will not admit to metaphysics, to natural law, to purpose, to objective truth. It’s not that marriage has been so degraded in our culture that it means nothing, and that “gay marriage” is just an extension of that nothing. It’s not even that a false compassion gets in the way of clear thinking.
Yes, it’s all those things, but it’s one thing more.
Pride.
You now have the opportunity, if you’re a secular fundamentalist with no higher purpose in life, to latch on to a big one. All you have to do is applaud those who are demanding that anal intercourse is a virtue and that the state reward them for indulging in it. All you have to do is claim that opposition to “gay marriage” is bigotry, and BAM! Magically you’re a good person.
You can argue people past many misconceptions, but you can make no headway against a belief that serves as a handy substitute for virtue.
No amount of stupidity is ever as harmful to our souls as one ounce of Pride.
I completely agree. I’m sick of the supercilious elites who imply that I’m a bigot for not supporting gay marriage.
Thanks for pointing that out Kevin. I usually blame it on ignorance, and modernity, but Pride does indeed seem to play a big part of it. Anyone who supports ‘gay rights’ gets a ton of brownie points for that alone, an automatic ‘you’re one of the good guys now!’ regardless of anything else they have done. I see it all the time, someone is ‘progressive’ (that all important trait) if one merely supports SSM.
I can’t even escape this in my video games anymore! Even when they celebrate homosex in a medieval fantasy, one cannot point out the obvious absurdity of it, it’s approvingly called “progressive” and that is end of that. I have seen people try to argue the point from a totally era-based perspective (that things like ssm were never, nor ever would be celebrated in a medieval setting), some even pro-SSM themselves, but regardless all are shot down as mere bigots. Merely saying it is anochronistic gets you bigot status. Sheesh!