October 2, 2006
Part 3
Q. "Where does it stop?"
How many times through history was the question "Where does it stop?" asked. When slavery was abolished? When women were given the right to vote? When blacks and other racial minorities were given civil rights? Contempt of Court details the lynching of Ed Johnson, a black man who was framed with the rape of a white woman, denied due process during his trial, and lynched by a white mob even after the Supreme Court intervened on his behalf. The authors describe the racist environment of Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1906.
"Chattanooga's attitude toward race was best expressed just weeks before Noah Parden's trip to Washington D.C. As various civic and community groups struggled with how to deal with the race problem, a prominent Baptist church voted seventy-four to seventy-one that black people do have souls and can go to heaven. "Thank God for the Soddy Baptist Church," Parden responded sarcastically, "I just hope they notified God about their decision."Can you picture a church full of God-fearing, white Americans debating such a tense issue? "Where does it stop, if we give blacks souls and let them into heaven, our farm animals will want souls too."
So if we give Homosexuals the same rights and protections of marriage, where does it stop? Mr. Stanton fears allowing same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy. Has he not noticed society has been moving away from polygamy? Polygamy was common in Biblical times, and there are many cultures today which allow multiple spouses. Martin Luther, one of the founding fathers of Christianity was not opposed to polygamy. In a letter to the Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück, Luther stated that he could not "forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture". According to Mr. Stanton, full acceptance will be mandatory, in other words, a family can be as open as the members would like it to be.
If same-sex marriage is allowed, we will also be throwing away freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and even the freedom to think our own thoughts. Again Mr. Stanton raises the question of value.
"You will fully value the same-sex family as the heterosexual family."The ACLU may be preparing their briefs already.
Education control is another concern he raises, our children will be bringing home school books depicting little Sally with her two dads, going to feed the ducks. Lucky for him Sally's dads decided to take her to feed the ducks which fit nicely into his "one male and one female" thesis, because "nature is something we just can't get away from". Imagine if they'd taken her to a dairy farm, where all the cows are impregnated by one bull, or a chicken farm where only one rooster takes care of all the hens, but no one can really explain how he does it. Even worse, what if the trio went to pick out a new puppy where one puppy doesn't look the same as the others. Perhaps Sally's dads should just read to her from this book instead.
Posted by Anna at October 2, 2006 12:39 AM