Paulie’s Sacrifice
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SummaryHomosexuals are not a recent plague, their fight for marriage not a new phenomenon. Gay couples have been seeking this right since the day straight couples were guaranteed it. But the times have changed, and the debate over the issue is no longer unequal; in its continuous strive to assert homosexual marriage as the end of the world, the institute of marriage itself has, in theory, asserted most marriages as evil. Marriage has never been a private matter. As a right sanctioned by the state, it is inseparable from politics. It is a tool applied toward the benefit of society. While the meaning behind a marriage may be important to the individuals, both the meaning and the individuals themselves are not in the eyes of society. What is important is the reason for that marriage, the reason determined by those on the outside of the union. Individual reasons like love and the consummation of that love fall at the feet of social reasons, reasons that change as often as religion and psychology. However, what never seems to change is the exclusion of homosexuals from this global plan. Homosexual marriage cannot fulfill the requirements that have appeared and faded through the centuries; to allow it is to allow marriage for the benefit of the individuals alone. And therein lies the sin; marriage for the sake of marriage itself, existing as nothing more than the greatest of proofs of the greatest of loves. Marriage has become a means to an end, a means that has grown more vitally important with each passing year, and the threat of homosexual marriage is the threat of marriage as an end in itself.
Table of Contents
- Homosexuals are not a recent plague, their fight for marriage not a new phenomenon.
- One of the first explorations of marriage as purposeful outside the realm of love is contained within Plato's Symposium.
- With the dawning of Christianity, however, such a choice was no longer offered. Marriage had one purpose and one purpose only: God's purpose.
- The sanctions forced upon marriage by the Church drove much of Europe to a 'love rebellion' in the fifteenth century.
- Although society will benefit eventually from superior offspring, Sigmund Freud found in his studies a more immediate social benefit for marriage: the prevention of sexual perversion
- Scientific connections between marriage and the survival of society are just the beginning of the pressures shaping relationships into tools.
- This political joke, this manipulation of marriage into the greatest savior of mankind, has succeeded only in blinding society.
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