03-19-2014, 12:12 PM
It may be worth considering that to some marriage is not about legal rights, but about conjugal family union; filial bonds and responsibilities, heritage, legacy, and family tradition. To some reproduction is sacred, to others heritage, bloodlines, and natural traits—as well as traditions regarding the way the child is nurtured—are all important parts of their legacy.
There are still people who carefully select their mates for more than their personal happiness and sexual interests, preferences, or even orientations, for purposes that extend beyond their own generation. Some who engage in the marital act of reproduction do so to leave their mark upon this earth, and they seek to impart and preserve their values through the union, and on into future generations. They pay taxes to their government to provide the institutions necessary to preserve their families' historical and legal record for posterity. The right and ability to reproduce is important to them; it is special. It is their immortality. Like those who are religious, it is how they seek to serve and believe in something greater than themselves. It is what makes them tick. Some of them may even want to, or even prefer to, have homosexual sex, but deny themselves that pleasure, to serve what they believe is more important than themselves - their gene pool. Some may engage in homosexual acts in their private lives, and act upon other sexual fantasies. Some may be downright homosexual, but are engaged in a marital union with a member of the opposite sex because they see reproduction and family as more important than sexuality. Others may simply want to preserve their legacy, and don't feel that couples who are unable to produce their own children together should be allowed to manipulate their gene pools in a petri dish. They may want the mothers or fathers of their descendants to be people who are to be involved in the children's upbringing. They may want the fathers or mothers or in laws of their descendants to be selected not only for their genetic contribution, but their contribution to the family unit itself - they may want their descendants to select a parent for their own children that they can live with, honor, and cherish, and who will do the same for them. They may want that person to be the one to provide the egg, or the sperm. The foundations that they lay for their families' futures, and the values they wish to impart, may be the very reason behind every single act that they commit during their brief and fragile adult lives.
Not that I give a shit.
Relationships and "mating" are not the same thing in this sense.
There are still people who carefully select their mates for more than their personal happiness and sexual interests, preferences, or even orientations, for purposes that extend beyond their own generation. Some who engage in the marital act of reproduction do so to leave their mark upon this earth, and they seek to impart and preserve their values through the union, and on into future generations. They pay taxes to their government to provide the institutions necessary to preserve their families' historical and legal record for posterity. The right and ability to reproduce is important to them; it is special. It is their immortality. Like those who are religious, it is how they seek to serve and believe in something greater than themselves. It is what makes them tick. Some of them may even want to, or even prefer to, have homosexual sex, but deny themselves that pleasure, to serve what they believe is more important than themselves - their gene pool. Some may engage in homosexual acts in their private lives, and act upon other sexual fantasies. Some may be downright homosexual, but are engaged in a marital union with a member of the opposite sex because they see reproduction and family as more important than sexuality. Others may simply want to preserve their legacy, and don't feel that couples who are unable to produce their own children together should be allowed to manipulate their gene pools in a petri dish. They may want the mothers or fathers of their descendants to be people who are to be involved in the children's upbringing. They may want the fathers or mothers or in laws of their descendants to be selected not only for their genetic contribution, but their contribution to the family unit itself - they may want their descendants to select a parent for their own children that they can live with, honor, and cherish, and who will do the same for them. They may want that person to be the one to provide the egg, or the sperm. The foundations that they lay for their families' futures, and the values they wish to impart, may be the very reason behind every single act that they commit during their brief and fragile adult lives.
Not that I give a shit.
Quote:I don't think I have the right to disapprove of any relationship between two consenting adults. Montegue or Capulet, we are all equal in that sense, to choose our own mate. Gotogo...
Relationships and "mating" are not the same thing in this sense.