Gay Marriage and Why I Dislike the Republican Party
Some reading (Rousseau) I was doing for my sociology course clarified my rational for two opinions I've held for quite some time to such a degree that I feel bound to record them while it's all still in my head.
Gay Marriage (for)
From a religious or moral perspective, my opinion is that of my church, which I have chosen to represent me in that capacity, as is my god-given right and therefore none of your damn business. As a citizen of the United States and therefore a member of its sovereign self, my ethical opinion is that granting monogamous homosexuals the legal protections afforded to monogamous heterosexuals is a social good, while denying them it is a social ill. Monogamy is the basis of civil marriage, not child-rearing, which is the duty of the state as a whole - that is why the state provides schools, orphanages and reformatories for them. The state chooses to delegate the responsibility of child-rearing to monogamous heterosexuals as an expedient; it would seem equally expedient to delegate their care to monogamous homosexuals; assuming, as one assumes with heterosexuals, that they are in all civil respects law-abiding.
Republicans (against)
The Republican party has by manifest acts and opinions declared in its platform to unify the otherworldly opinions of its members with their political persuasion, for the expressly stated purpose of unifying the general will on certain key electoral issues. Its interest is power and morality, not service and ethics, and it is therefore a harmful faction within the United States as a sovereign whole. By relinquishing the responsibility of acting in accordance with the general will, but by rather attempting to thwart or alter it, Republicans relinquish their right to represent the United States as a sovereign whole.
Which isn't to say I like the democrats much neither.
Gay Marriage (for)
From a religious or moral perspective, my opinion is that of my church, which I have chosen to represent me in that capacity, as is my god-given right and therefore none of your damn business. As a citizen of the United States and therefore a member of its sovereign self, my ethical opinion is that granting monogamous homosexuals the legal protections afforded to monogamous heterosexuals is a social good, while denying them it is a social ill. Monogamy is the basis of civil marriage, not child-rearing, which is the duty of the state as a whole - that is why the state provides schools, orphanages and reformatories for them. The state chooses to delegate the responsibility of child-rearing to monogamous heterosexuals as an expedient; it would seem equally expedient to delegate their care to monogamous homosexuals; assuming, as one assumes with heterosexuals, that they are in all civil respects law-abiding.
Republicans (against)
The Republican party has by manifest acts and opinions declared in its platform to unify the otherworldly opinions of its members with their political persuasion, for the expressly stated purpose of unifying the general will on certain key electoral issues. Its interest is power and morality, not service and ethics, and it is therefore a harmful faction within the United States as a sovereign whole. By relinquishing the responsibility of acting in accordance with the general will, but by rather attempting to thwart or alter it, Republicans relinquish their right to represent the United States as a sovereign whole.
Which isn't to say I like the democrats much neither.