On homosexual "marriage"

A friend pointed out yesterday that the real answer to the question of homosexual "marriage" is to ask "What did God intend?" That answer must come by revelation, not be reason. (That's difficult for politicians to do, of course, but you and I are not trying to win anyone's vote, are we?) It is not helpful to say, "Well, that's the way it's always been." Or "It hurts the children." Because there are abundant examples of kids who have been hurt by heterosexual marriages.

I also appreciated Jeff Jacoby's useful analysis of why homosexual marriage is not about civil rights. "They have not been deprived of the law's equal protection, nor of the right to marry -- only of the right to insist that a single-sex union is a "marriage." They cloak their demands in the language of civil rights because it sounds so much better than the truth: They don't want to accept or reject marriage on the same terms that it is available to everyone else. They want it on entirely new terms. They want it to be given a meaning it has never before had, and they prefer that it be done undemocratically -- by judicial fiat, for example, or by mayors flouting the law. Whatever else that may be, it isn't civil rights."