It will not end with legalizing polygamy either. Anyone who is
reading the news knows that other issues like pedophilia (sex with
children), incest and others are also being challenged. Open the door
and where will it stop? It won't.
I have moral objections to all of these issues in a society that
is increasingly coming to the conclusion that the only absolute is
that there are no absolutes. From a business or government
perspective, imagine the costs and paperwork headaches in the HR
departments to add and subtract and change the status of multiple
partners.
Anything that becomes universal loses its identity. Marriage is
losing its identity and is coming to mean nothing in our culture.
P.S. To those who say marriage/sex is about reproduction, stop --
that's bad theology and a terrible argument. God created sex for
enjoyment too -- within a heterosexual marriage.
ASSOCIATE PASTOR RIC OLSEN
Harbor Trinity Church
Costa Mesa
Having come of age in the 1960s, I recall how the domino theory
dominated strategic thinking: the idea that if the Communist regime
of North Vietnam succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship of South
Vietnam, the North Vietnamese would proceed to foment Communist
revolution throughout Indochina and conquer the region.
In retrospect, Robert McNamara, one of the chief architects of
that policy, explained that the domino theory had no factual
foundation. The reality was that no North Vietnamese leader ever
expressed the least interest in such a scheme. North Vietnamese
leaders were amazed to learn that Americans actually believed
anything so preposterous.
I am, then, skeptical of domino theories. As the slippery slope of
the war in Vietnam was proven to be fictitious, I view as equally
ludicrous the proposition that legitimizing homosexual unions as
"marriages" could have a domino effect leading to acceptance of
polygamy. The issue of same-sex unions being defined as marriage
ought to be considered on its own merits, and not compromised by
hysteria over what societal value might fall next. While I believe
there are good reasons to affirm marriage solely as a heterosexual
relationship, I do not see homosexual "marriages" as undermining the
value of monogamy and leading to polygamy.
I cannot imagine how one can clearly demonstrate how monogamous
"marriage" between homosexuals could plausibly lead to endorsing
polygamy, or incest, a Manson family wedding or any other Chicken
Little scenarios.
Advocates of recognizing homosexual unions as marriage say they
