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A diluted family means a dissolved America
It is a great fault to abominate those things that are set in stone as right. Yet it is the tendency of today’s society to attack that which people hold as sacred and absolute, not merely for the sake of fulfilling their own desire to act as they’d like, but for the reason of destroying what is held sacred by some in order to make their beliefs second-class to those of the masses of society. The subject at hand has nothing to do with debunking religious traditions, tearing down political ideals or revealing hidden truths in our nation’s history, but about the issue of gay marriage. Since the beginning of society, the family structure has been established on the union between a man and a woman—a husband and wife. It has been the family structure that has served as the basis for civilizations for eons. Control of governments has passed down through the result of a union between a man and woman. Entrepreneurial individuals have sought advancement in order to better the position of their family and the desire to free oneself and one’s family from oppression has served as the basis for countless struggles for freedom as the years passed. The family structure composed of a well-adjusted marriage of a man and a woman, who strive to raise their children to love and respect that standard, results in a civilization composed of citizens who are well adjusted and respectful of the order that is essential to a stable society. Many people with different reasons oppose gay marriage, from secular organizations to religious opposition, the motivations of each differ, but all hold marriage as an absolute—the union between a man and a woman. And both strive to preserve the sanctity of this absolute. In the last 50 years, the family structure has been disassembled, disregarded, disdained and legislated against. The idea of a man and a woman marrying, bearing—or adopting—children and raising them themselves without the “help” of society’s say in the matter has been made into a laughingstock in popular entertainment, and it has in turn, become the same in society. Some have called the debauchery of the family structure progress. But in fact, it has made our nation into one where many children are not raised properly, but are raised by one parent, or none at all (read: society or television). They obtain an unbalanced, undeveloped idea of who they are, having missed the well-rounded upbringing that comes by learning from healthy interaction between two well-adjusted parents who are of opposite sexes. This leaves every subsequent generation without a major, available example of structure in their life, forced to establish their own familial identity. The destruction of the family structure has left too many without the warmth, support, love or source of stability that comes from the traditional family structure of a married man and woman. When it comes down to it, the bare bones of the issue of gay marriage aren’t about religious opinions or the economics of providing benefits to gay couples. The reason that gay marriage and adoption should not be legal is because they will further destroy the family structure in America. — This columnist can be reached at collegian@csufresno.edu |
