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| Frederica Mathewes-Green. |
Is opposition to gay ‘marriage’ about warding off a public threat, or
policing private morality? Is it about imposing religiously-derived
categories onto a secular public, or protecting our way of life?
These questions recently came to mind when I stumbled across an article written thirteen years ago by Frederica Mathewes-Green.
Mrs. Mathewes-Green is one of the most helpful and lucid thinkers of
our era. Her writings and public speaking have been a source of much
rich blessing for both my wife and me over the years. So I was naturally
interested when I read some questions Frederica posed on her website about what she calls “anti-gay activism.”
I fall into the category of what would probably be considered an
“anti-gay activist” since I have been very involved in both Britain and
the United States campaigning against the promotion of homosexuality in
the schools and, more recently, same-sex ‘marriage.’ But perhaps these
efforts are misplaced. Does the gay agenda really threaten marriage? Is
homosexuality really a political issue, or just a question of private
morality? These were some of the questions that Frederica’s thought-provoking article raised. Since the time when she wrote that article, David Dunn has argued
that gay marriage will definitely not affect traditional marriage in
any way. I’d like to suggest that both Mathewes-Green and Dunn may be
being too optimistic and that the evidence from Canada shows that
legalizing same-sex ‘marriage’ can be considered a public threat.
To be fair, at the beginning of the 21st century when Mathewes-Green
wrote the above article, it was still possible to assume that gay rights
only affected the homosexual community, and that what happens in the
secular realm need not affect what happens in the rest of the world. But
things have rapidly changed since then, and it has become increasingly
clear that the goals of the gay community, if realized, would affect
everyone, not merely themselves. To put it simply, gay rights in
general, and gay ‘marriage’ in particular, represents a significant public threat.
At least, that is what I have argued in two articles I wrote for the Christian Voice website. In these articles I surveyed just a few of the many areas in which same-sex 'marriage' represents a threat to the public common good. To read these articles, click on the links below:
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