Institution of Marriage Is About Raising Children

Folks, with George W. Bush, the press has gone well beyond the expected and quite common adversarial relationship. It is clear that this press corps is working very closely with their willing accomplices on the Democrat/liberal side of the aisle to try to bring the guy down. It's not so much the questions, although the questions fit the bill; it's the attitude with which they are asked and there's a lot of frustration on the part of the press. It's not written about, but a lot of frustration on the part of the media and the Democrats because they've shot their wad, and it isn't working.

One example, from the president's press conference, is the issue of gay marriage. The president gave an answer on gay marriage, and it has the gay community in a tizzy. The militant homosexual crowd out there, the highly politicized element of the homosexual population, is just in a tizzy over this answer.

You can hear the question and the answer in the audio link below. The president made the following reference in his answer, "I am mindful we are all sinners." The homosexual community thinks that he was targeting them with that comment.

The Answer To All This Is Just One Simple Word: CHILDREN

Ever since this subject of homosexual marriage came up some years ago, and it really intensified in the last 12 months, there have been constant efforts on the part of many to try to explain why there is an institution of marriage, what led to it, why it exists as it does, and why is it exclusionary. In other words, why does it exclude people of the same sex? I've read a number of things, I've listened to a number of people try to explain it and get very deep about it, but the answer, actually, is very simple. The answer makes a lot of sense. I don't at all expect people who disagree with me to accept the answer. I expect there to be tremendous arguments about it, but it really is simple.

Like most things, when it comes to cultural norms, there's usually a simple reason to explain why they are what they are, why they have endured, and why they remain the best way to do things. There were dueling congresswomen debating this hotly on the Today Show Thursday morning, and the one who was pro-gay marriage, asked, " If Michael and Roger want to go get married, how does that threaten my marriage?" How an individual marriage is threatened is not relevant at all. Nobody is saying individual marriages are going to be threatened. We're talking here about an institution. When you boil it all down, there's one answer, and there's one word: Children.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. Why else worry about illegitimacy? Why else worry about divorce? Why keep statistics on what happens to kids who are illegitimate? Michael and Roger are making a move based on adult desires, and marriage isn't about that. I know in the first throes of marriage, you have all the wild passionate lust and love and the idea of sharing life with someone else and I'm not denying that. That's all relevant and true, but eventually that couple become parents. That's what it's all about. There are exceptions to all this and I expect many of you to call up and say, "Oh yeah?" But go ahead. Give it your best shot.