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Marriage? It is the government's business, Mr. Amrhine Date published: 7/26/2004
There Richard Amrhine goes again ["Whose Business Is It?" July 18]. He claims that gay marriage isn't his business and doesn't destroy the sanctity of your family so why is it President Bush's business to get involved with it? Are such moral decisions to be made solely upon the basis of whether it affects you or your family or should society as a whole be taken into consideration? Married people are given certain tax breaks because they provide the state with future income through the creation of future wage earners. Also, without those wage earners contributing Social Security would be in far greater danger than it already is. Gays cannot naturally provide those eventual wage earners. You say that, "if two people want to get married, any two people, that's their business." By that reasoning it shouldn't be our business if a man and his daughter decide they want to be married as well. Or a brother and sister? To be sure, the argument will be made that procreation by such close relatives is genetically dangerous and therefore wrong but birth control could take care of that. The reason we know gay and incestuous marriage is wrong is because it is written upon our hearts by God him-self. Most people know it is wrong, but in today's politically correct climate they find it difficult or even dangerous (as in losing their job) to express those beliefs. Gays shouldn't be singled out for abuse as they have been in the past but they also shouldn't be given the privileges afforded married couples who provide upcoming wage earners. Mr. Amrhine seems to think our moral clarity is based upon the social constructs of our time. Perhaps there is a voice inside telling him something different. Shawn Smart Fredericksburg
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