The homosexual movement and individual freedom are at hopeless odds. Every advance for the homosexual agenda begs for government intervention, which, not surprisingly, tends to place limitations on heterosexuals. In other words, new “freedoms” or rights for the homosexual must come at the price of new restrictions on heterosexuals. To succeed, this agenda must culminate and progress by means of laws, regulations, quotas, fines, penalties, hate speech censorship, licenses, benefits, etc., etc.

Since marriage for homosexuals is unheard of in human history it must come into being by government-ordained contrivance. Thus, homosexual marriage is to marriage what fiat currency is to real money: a fraud and a counterfeit. Just as you would suspect, the counterfeit is driven to stamp out the genuine article. Already, in some jurisdictions, the government schools and politically correct society are forbidding the use of “offensive” terms like “mother” or “father”; “husband” or “wife” because these might upset the gay ones. And, believe me, this won’t stop until every trans-gendered, cross-dressing, freaky fetish group has its statutory approval.

The argument that revulsion to homosexuality is an irrational and invidious prejudice flies in the face of virtually all social and cultural experience, which uniformly proscribes this behavior. It also denies the observable distress and frequent despair of homosexuals themselves. Honestly, this “life style” just doesn’t seem to benefit its participants.

The arrogance of today’s breed of cultural anarchists is that they seem to think that they know better than Moses, the prophets and all the great teachers that ever lived. But, heck! Some of these acne-faced anarchists have even graduated from college! So, who needs to consider thousands of years of human experience and collective cultural wisdom? Naaah, don’t bother…..just find a few examples of injustice in each society, then puff out your morally superior chest, and discard the baby with the bath water. One can say of these self-important neophytes what the biblical character Job sarcastically said to his critics: “Surely, you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!”

The real gay marriage is the marriage between gays and government. Even when the majority of people speak their minds, as in Proposition 8 in California, the homosexuals throw themselves upon the altar of their god, the courts, hoping to get from these liberal hacks what the constitution of that state denies them. And, what is that? Is it really marriage? Not at all. No amount of licenses, ceremonies, or vows can change this sow’s ear into a silk purse.

The reality of homosexual acts undermines all the rhetoric about homosexual “love”. Just read their own “health” literature as they go through the relative risks associated with sodomy and a whole lexicon of sex acts that, I honestly confess, sound more like torture and forced humiliation than anything remotely resembling love or affection. The fact that people do these things voluntarily forms more of an indictment or a diagnosis than any kind of legitimization. Should they be free to do these things? Sure! They can chew razor blades too, if they like. But, don’t let them keep drumming that insipid mantra that “we’re just like you!”. You most certainly are not just like me, father of three and married to a member of the opposite sex.

You say that homosexual marriage poses no threat to real marriage? Really? Ask any advocate for homosexual marriage if bisexuals deserve the same legitimization as homosexuals do, and, if they are not testifying before a legislative committee, they will say “yes, of course they do”. Now, plug this into the “real-o-meter” and tell me that this doesn’t become bigamy, polygamy, polyandry and even a new, hybrid I’ll call Frankin-marriage, which can only be described as multiple marriage. Let me explain.

If a bisexual man gets to express his bisexuality in marriage then he gets to marry a man and a woman, right? And, if the woman he “marries” is also bisexual, then she gets to marry a woman in addition to the man. So, there it is. The first man is married to a man and a woman, but the woman he is married to is also married to another woman, who may or may not be bisexual….. but please; I have to stop. I’m getting dizzy! And, if you are not purposely obtuse, you can see that, by trying to stuff too many contents into it, the clay pot of marriage is broken with the result that it can now hold nothing. In other words, the definition of marriage will have been expanded out of meaningful existence. Will that affect the health of society? Oh, yeah, it will! It really will! It will affect society a whole lot! Family formation and marital stability are the vital signs of any society. As marriages fail to form, and as the divorce rate climbs, you can watch the courts fill up, substance abuse rise, the schools fail, the prison populations soar and the economies collapse.

So, to all you cultural anarchists out there who think that you can reinvent life on your own terms, you would be better off writing a novel. Or, better yet, write science fiction; cause then, there will be no distracting lines on the paper, no margins to mess up your creative imagination, in fact, no rules at all, and nobody smarter than you on your own little planet that you’ve made up all by your brilliant self.

Michael J. Walsh, J.D.