Living A Lie
By Michael R. Bowen (07/29/03)
The push for homosexual marriage is on.
Remember when we were considered hysterics for talking about the "slippery slope"? Abortion, for example, was supposed to be "freely available, but rare" in the memorable words of Bill Clinton. But it's not just freely available, it's horribly widespread, and it has proceeded, as it was bound to do, to the horrors of partial-birth abortion.
It has inevitably gone to the point that it's actually necessary to pass a law forbidding doctors to kill a baby which somehow survives their abortion procedure. Today it's blasphemy to suggest that a parent have some say in, or even be notified of, a 15-year old's decision to abort her baby.
So with homosexual marriage. We were likewise hysterics for casting a jaundiced eye on the so-called Gay Rights movement. There was no way that homosexuals were going to rub our noses in it. It was crazy to think they'd be trying to indoctrinate our children. Paranoid to think there'd be laws requiring us to accept them into whatever venue they desired, even becoming Boy Scout leaders or ministers of the Church. And here we are. We have no rights of free speech or religious belief. You must accommodate a homosexual couple who wish to rent a room in your house. You cannot have an organization which holds that homosexuality is abnormal -- at least not without being dragged through the courts at crippling expense. If you host a radio program that fails to declare that homosexuality is just hunky-dory, your advertisers will be boycotted and you will be hounded off the airwaves.
And now we will be forced to recognize the union of two men as a marriage. This doesn't just mean we'll have to "tolerate" homosexual couples. Tolerance is not what they're after; they already have that, as all but the most raging ideologues can see. My father used to say that the Black Man will be equal in America the day he stars in vapid television shows and idiotic commercials. Homosexuals have already achieved this. No, this is about more than that: it's about having us genuflect and kiss the ring. It's not enough for us to mind our own business while they mind theirs; we must now treat the abnormal as normal. We must raise our children to view Mr. and Mr. Jones no differently than Mr. and Mrs. Smith. And we must extend to homosexual couples all the benedictions and benefits hitherto safeguarded to the marriage of Man and Woman.
This movement may well succeed, though I hope it will be recorded that I resisted it. When it does, it will have corrupted our society by forcing it to live a lie. For call it what you will, marriage is the word to describe the permanent union of one man and one woman. It just is what it is, in the same way that blue is blue and two and two are four. You can change its name, and you can force us to pretend that it's what it's not, but none of that will change its nature. What will change is our ability to tell real from unreal, right from wrong, and honest from dishonest. When we live a lie, we all become liars. And the man who will lie for you will sooner or later lie to you. No matter how we dance around this thing, inside we'll always know that a homosexual union isn't really a marriage. Living our lives as if it were can only corrode what remains of our ethics. But then, maybe that's the point.
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