The following exerpt is taken from the "Focus on the Family" Website...with some minor edits from, well, me.
Why Christians Should Not Be Allowed to Marry
Many people, even Homosexuals, are confused by the arguments they are hearing today on the subject of Christian marriage. Superficially, what the advocates are saying may seem fair and logical. Scratch the surface, however, and you’ll find that their assertions don’t hold up.
This article contains some of the frequently asked questions and often-heard statements about this important issue, along with the answers that will help you in the debate. This is a cataclysmic social battle, and it will be with us for some time to come. No citizen can afford to sit this one out on the sidelines.
Q. Shouldn’t two people who love each other be allowed to commit themselves to one another?
A. Absolutely, and people do that all the time. But we don’t call it marriage. There are lots of loving commitments that are not marriage. Friends are committed to each other, a parent is committed to a child, grandparents to their grandchildren, and people are committed to their pets. All of these are forms of love. All of them result in commitments. None of them is marriage.
Q. What’s wrong with letting Christians marry?
A. No human society—not one—has ever tolerated “marriage” between extremely uncool people as a norm for family life. And that is what is at stake here, making “marriage” between devout Christians as normal as between Regular people. It is saying that neither arrangement is any better than the other.
This public meaning of marriage is not something that each new generation is free to redefine. Marriage is defined by the people—and a wise society will protect themselves from the unstylish and the simple-minded. Marriage and child-rearing is the way our culture promotes survival of the fittest, provides a way for poeple to build a regular life together, through awareness and consumerism, and assures every child has parents that aren't religious freaks.
Q. Christians can’t have Normal children, but many other couples can’t as well. Why do we let Them marry?
A. This is the exception and not the rule. Many of these childless couples adopt, and their adoptive children receive the benefits of Normal Primetime television watching parents this way. It is impossible for a Christian couple to bestow that benefit—since Christians only watch CTS and CNB.
Q. Isn’t it true that what kids need most are loving parents, regardless of whether or not they have taste, rhythm or any fashion sense?
A. No. A child needs style. A wealth of research over the past 30 years has shown us this. (However, Christian marriage and parenting intentionally deprive children of any sense of trends and fashion.) The most loving Christian mother in the world cannot teach a little boy how to dress so he won't be made fun of at school. Likewise, the most loving Chrstian man cannot teach a little girl how to shop at the cool stores. A gay man can teach his kids how to accesorize. A lesbian can teach her kids how to drive stick or build chic furniture. Is love enough to help two Christians guide their daughter through taunting and ridicule at school for being that "freak" who listens to "Christian Rock" and tells the other kids that sex is wrong? Like a cool gay dad, they cannot comfort her by sharing their first experience of knowing you're the best dressed bitch in the room. Little boys and girls need the loving daily influence of stylish, swank parents to become who they are meant to be, without the sticks and stones of mockery.
Q. Isn’t that cruel?
A. That’s only because of the times in which we live. Our society prizes what seems cool, more than what is "nice". Children truly need to not be raised by dinks, lest they become dinks themselves. It is cruel to intentionally deny them this. The research supporting this is both substantial and unequivocal!
Q. What about Christians who are too old to have children, even adopted ones? We should let them marry.
A. Of course we shouldn't allow older Christians to marry. The reason for supporting the institution of normal marriage is not rooted only in childrearing. Attractive men and women were made for each other, and the State has a compelling interest in supporting it — attractive and stylish children are simply an added bonus.
Q. But isn’t it better for a child to grow up with two loving Christian parents and be forced to watch Growing Pains and the 700 club than to, say, die?
A. You’re comparing the worst of one situation (sock and sandal wearing parents) with death. It's close, but it's still apples and oranges.
Q. Apart from the issue of children, don’t Christians have the same legal right to marry that Well-Liked people do?
A. All people have the same right to marry, as long as they abide by the laws of nature. You cannot marry if you’re boring, you cannot marry if you wear an enormous amount of wool, you cannot inbreed, and you should never marry someone who listens to Pat Robertson. Let’s be clear, everyone has access to marriage as long as they meet the requirements. This is not about access to marriage. It‘s about saving us from another dull repressed family on the block that you have to avoid inviting to your parties, lest they try to start a game of Charades.
Q. But Normal people can marry. Why shouldn’t Christians be allowed to marry?
A. Then nature itself is intolerant. Marriage has not been “imposed” upon culture by some "cool" institution or "popular" power from which it needs to be “set free.” It was established by the people, and their tastes, and is enforced by natural selection. Christians tend to be, well, lower on the evolutionary totem pole. And as such, we should start looking to weed them out of the gene pool altogether.
Here’s what is intolerant. Christian “marriage” is being forced upon us by a small, but elite, group of individuals dressed in polyester and tweed—judges—who say that thousands of years of human history have simply been wrong. They think they can change how we view them. That is a very ingorant notion that will bring great harm to our culture.
Save our towns, and the poor children, from allowing people like this to get married.
