Another Morally Bankrupt Wingnut
Oct 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm by Susie
I wonder if Megan McArdle can possibly believe the loathsome things she writes. It’s not just that she’s apparently stupid enough to think that marriage has survived all these centuries purely on the basis of a romantic myth of heterosexuality (as if it wasn’t blatantly an economic contract), and feminine/masculine roles (as if the roles hadn’t constantly changed), it’s that the very basis of her writing them is just so shamefully hateful. There’s no intellectual justification for spending time finding reasons to discriminate against gays who want to build homes together. That thousands of years of history and anthropological fact manifestly disprove the thesis is evidence of a profound lack of rigor on McArdle’s part that can only be motivated by an underlying moral and intellectual abyss. People who go on the record to seriously propose policy decisions without supporting their proposals with any substantive evidence of their validity are intellectually lazy at their very best, but to persist in doing so without ever even looking for the evidence or absorbing the known contraindications is morally bankrupt.
Here’s the point I want everyone (yes, you too, Sen. Biden) to remember: Sacramental marriage is a CHURCH issue. Legal marriage is a CIVIL issue. There is no infringement on religious freedom by giving gay couples LEGAL standing as married. Each church is free to draw its own parameters for SACRAMENTAL marriage.
Other countries do it. You have the legal marriage, and you have the church wedding. Not such a big thing, except to the wingnuts. Any deviation from their fantasies of “right”, “moral” and “true” is seen as a threat to all civilization. Sad, really.
It wouldn’t make any difference to the wingers, but I have always thought that we should start teasing apart the concepts of marriage (the religious kind) and civil unions (the civil kind). Civil unions should provide legal protection to those who have made the contractual agreement between themselves. Marriage should be used strictly as a religious term…get marriages out of the civilian sphere all together.