Puppy Love
November 16th, 2007
For some time now my good friend, Byron, over at the No Kool Aid Zone has maintained that legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope “to the eventual dissolution of marriage as we know it.” His point is this: “Once you change the definition of marriage from one-man/one-woman (which has loads and loads of moral, historical, and legal precedent) to something else, you’ve basically opened the door to all sorts of other arrangements.” What logical, ethical or moral argument could be made to prohibit, for instance, marriage between say a man and three wives, a woman and five husbands, four women and seven men, or possibly even…a man and his dog.
That’s right, you heard me. A New Delhi newspaper reported Tuesday that a man in southern India married a female dog in an attempt to circumvent physical maladies believed to be caused by a curse. The man claims that for the past fifteen years he has suffered with paralysis in his hands and legs and a partial loss of hearing, this after stoning two dogs to death and hanging their bodies from a tree (shades of Michael Vick).
Suddenly, Byron’s argument starts to look just a little bit more plausible, doesn’t it? Could this possibly be coming to a marriage chapel near you?
November 16th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Unfortunately, it may be sooner than we think. They can scoff all they want, but the fact remains that there are places in this world where the “dissolution of marriage as we know it” is already a reality. Do we really think it’ll never happen in America?
November 16th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Well, probably not anytime soon, but the point is well-taken, that once we leave the norm of one-man-one-woman, it’s Katie-bar-the-door, or whatever hyphenated thing you want to happen. “Gay marriage” apologists scoff at such a notion, but hard as it is to believe now, it was well into the 1990s before I ever heard the term “gay marriage” mentioned (and then, most people thought it was lunacy—and most people were right).