For years I've watched organizations work diligently to
resist legalizing marriage and other activities for homosexuals.
Lately, I'm contemplating the motives. If you asked those resisting
for the basis of their morals , I'm sure most would say the bible. I
concur that the bible calls homosexuality an abomination, and that
the bible is the word of God.
My time on the internet has put me in contact with a fair
amount of Libertarians, and their thoughts. This has been rewarding.
Not that I'm in complete agreement with them. I don't know if there
is an official Libertarian manifesto, or what it's content would be.
My interpretation of Libertarian thought is: "Mind your own
business". So it is that any position I think they would take is
just a guess.
My guess of their position on homosexual marriage is: “fine,
knock yourself out. Get married, Get divorced, Get remarried in a
bathhouse for all I care. But you can't use government to
indoctrinate school children into your preferences. Also, since
freedom of association necessarily means freedom to not associate
with who I choose, I'm not required to perform your marriage, or
photograph it, or rent you an apartment.”
I'm sympathetic to that position, although what matters is
what God thinks. You might wonder how I can be, seeing that I already
acknowledged that the bible considers homosexuality a perversion. For
one thing, government itself has proven dangerous. For another, this
nation doesn't want Godly laws. If they're going to insist on the
freedom to sin, I'll insist on freedom of association. Lastly, and
this is the main point of this post, I see an inconsistency. The
bible does indeed condemn homosexual behavior, but it also prescribes
the death penalty for adultery.
If the goal is to protect families, why not make an issue of
adultery? One of my concerns has long been that God will be disgusted
with a nation that accepts perversion, but what about a nation that
has adultery as a societal norm? Divorce as a societal norm? Is
public perversion the chain reaction of these norms? Are we spraying
water on the tool shed while the house burns down?
