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America's roots, families, and the Bible trump gay marriage
Date published: 6/1/2006
This is regarding the marriage amendment now under consideration by the Virginia legislature ["Sparks fly over gay marriage," May 19]. The strength of the United States has been, from the beginning, drawn from its very basic building block, the Christian family unit. It is within the Christian family--father, mother, and child--that notions of right and wrong and patriotism are nurtured. Other kinds of assorted live-in styles promote mostly self-indulgence, moral indifference, and a disinclination to patriotism. People begin to confuse freedom with license, and ideas of right and wrong begin to dissolve into a morass of social "rights," derived from the imagination of amoral judges. In the movie "On Golden Pond" with Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, the old man (Fonda) speaks critically of a "deviant" lifestyle, with reference to "two old lesbians" living in the area, one of whom "was eaten by a bear"--to exacerbate the outdoor fears of his daughter's live-in male friend. Even the movies, sometimes, reflect the age-old human perception that something is definitely out of order when a man wants to marry a man, or a woman wants to marry a woman. Letter-writer Dara Dawson says God does not discriminate ["Where's the Christian love for gays?" May 8]. She needs to read more of her Bible--like our Lord's parables of the good and bad fish, and the wheat and the weeds. He assures us that divine discrimination will indeed occur. Our tradition of marriage should not be equated in any way with the wants of a small but very loud minority. Dick WhittakerSpotsylvania
Date published: 6/1/2006
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