By: Scot Bear Re: Letter re: Gay Marriage Editor The Providence Journal 75 Fountain St., P

By: Scot Bear
Re: Letter re: Gay Marriage


  Editor
  The Providence Journal
  75 Fountain St.,
  Providence, RI 02902

  Dear Sir:

  One of the sadest traits which I frequently see in persons
  growing older in America is the loss of understanding that
  society is a dynamic institution. Society, its behavior
  and even its moral precepts, move and either we move with
  them or we are left in a tangle of inappropriate and outmoded
  mores. Martin Mawyer, who wrote the article on SAME-SEX
  MARRIAGE that appeared in your January 10th issue, reflects
  that intransigence that opts to return America to the Victorian
  era of a century ago. We do not live in a era of lower moral
  values than formerly...rather we live in times of greater
  openness, we live in times of greater personal honesty,
  we live in times of the truthfulness of our being.

  The Christian Right has long tried to convince people of
  their clearly erroneous idea that gayness is a willfully
  made moral wrong turn rather than to recognize what the
  fields of medicine, biology, psychology and sociology clearly
  tell us...that sexual orientation, whether from genetic
  or other causes, is present from birth. It is not a preference...a
  choice,it is a fixed aspect of our being from birth. By
  the same token,heterosexuals of whatever age cannot be "recruited"
  to homosexuality, nor can homosexuals be "cured" of their
  God-given traits, despite frequent untruths to the contrary.

  Homosexuals are people...honest, striving people contributing
  to the enrichment of mankind in many ways. We do both them
  and ourself an injustice in relegating them to second class
  citizenship. In the matter of same-sex marriage, the supreme
  court of Hawai'i has spoken wisdom in declaring that unless
  the state can find a compelling interest in preventing same-sex
  marriage, it should go forward as permitted by law. They
  are right, of course, if only America can shed itself of
  the straight-jacket of long outworn Victorian ideals!

  Mawyer, along with others, err in yet another way. The argument
  that marriage must entail procreation seems ludicrous in
  a time when hardly a single socioeconomic ill, within our
  country and elsewhere, cannot be traced to a burgeoning
  overpopulation that threatens the concept of "family" to
  a far greater degree than does same-sex marriage.

  The time has arrived, I believe, when we need to give far
  more mature consideration to these matters of same-sex marriage
  and family. A loving couple, regardless of sex, are indeed
  a family perhaps in a concept not fully appreciated until
  now. Cardinal Basil Hume said it most eloquently: "Love
  between two persons, whether of the same sex or of a different
  sex,is to be treasured and respected....To love another,
  whether of the same sex or of a different sex, is to have
  entered the area of the richest human experience.

  Bob Hosley
  Bozeman, MT 59715
  Tario@mcn.net


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