2006
The Real Danger of Same-Sex Marriage
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How does gay marriage undermine the social function marriage serves? The author of “The Real Danger of Same-Sex Marriage,” Stephen Baskerville, traces the answer to the destruction of heterosexual marriage. The article appears in the latest edition of The Family in America (Volume 20, Issue 5/6), a monthly periodical edited by Allan Carlson and covering family issues since 1987.
Taking a fresh look at the gay-marriage debate, “The Real Danger of Same-Sex Marriage” concisely traces the destruction of marriage and parent-child relations through the history of American family law. Revealing the dangerous intermingling of state and private affairs, the essay details numerous cases where government agencies have stripped children from the arms of loving parents under the guise of unsubstantiated child abuse allegations and involuntary divorce trials. Consequently, parents’ once absolute right to parenthood is stripped from their hands and marriage is reduced to a formality.
Marriage’s primary purposes are for procreation and the rearing of children. Due to the sterile nature of homosexual unions, the issue of gay adoption is closely tied to gay marriage. This radical innovation shifts marriage’s focus from providing for the needs of children to securing the rights of adults to marry. It also means creating families which must raise someone else’s children. The author thus concludes, “It is parents—not gay parents, but parents generally—who are being besieged by an increasingly repressive state apparatus and denied basic due process protection.”
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