A recipe for disaster (From South Wales Argus)
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A recipe for disaster
3:36pm Wednesday 9th January 2013 in Letters
SAME-sex marriage has not yet been institutionalised in Great Britain, but it is on the cards courtesy of David Cameron, Westminster Government, and Alex Salmond, Scottish Government. The thinking in our liberal society these days to marriage comes from the dominant concept of love and human sexuality today which argues that you can’t choose who you are attracted to. This line of argument suggests, that whether chosen or not, this attraction, love, sentiment should always be consummated.
That is the dominant argument that governs modern understanding of sexuality. It says nothing about family; it says nothing about children but what it does provide is a licence for any form of sexual coupling that is consensual. This argument will give you an argument for same-sex marriage but it will also give you an argument for polyandrous marriage: multi-partner marriage and incestuous marriage. This current trend of thinking in which we find ourselves is a trajectory which is going to take us further and further in this direction.
As marriage is reduced at the end of the day simply to the satisfaction of sexual appetite, combined with liberal divorce laws, it is a recipe for disintegration, and disaster.
Norman Plaisted Vivian Road, Newport
Comments(6)
Mervyn James
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6:17pm Wed 9 Jan 13
Llanmartinangel
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7:11pm Wed 9 Jan 13
Mervyn James
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8:52am Thu 10 Jan 13
Marriage is basically a church concept based on a man and a woman and family ethos. For those that reject that concept and want same sex unions the option is there, but NOT in a church, which is fair enough. The gays cannot alter the rules to suit them in religious terms,the state hasn't the power to enforce it. It is dubious people are suggesting they should have that power, especially as the chaos of heirachial decision making, only targets ONE religion in the UK and none of the rest,it looks like bullying and totally unfair.
If Cameron and CO said OK we will force Islam, Hindu's, Buddhists, whatever, to comply as well, it might make more sense. As it stands it looks like deliberate bullying and playing on the British sense of 'fair play' which it certainly is NOT. British are scared stiff to oppose minority groups or religions as there is always some dubious rights lawyer prepared to sue them for a fat fee.
Llanmartinangel
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6:35pm Thu 10 Jan 13
Mervyn James wrote:I agree with a lot of that except that I've not seen anyone on here who 'hates Welsh'. There are people like me who think spending £2 Billion on it since 2002 only to see it decline to an even smaller minority in the latest census is obscene.
Love-hate two sides of the same coin. There are people here who hate welsh and certainly have no respect for that choice, once you start setting up a pecking order of rights, the whole thing collapses.
Marriage is basically a church concept based on a man and a woman and family ethos. For those that reject that concept and want same sex unions the option is there, but NOT in a church, which is fair enough. The gays cannot alter the rules to suit them in religious terms,the state hasn't the power to enforce it. It is dubious people are suggesting they should have that power, especially as the chaos of heirachial decision making, only targets ONE religion in the UK and none of the rest,it looks like bullying and totally unfair.
If Cameron and CO said OK we will force Islam, Hindu's, Buddhists, whatever, to comply as well, it might make more sense. As it stands it looks like deliberate bullying and playing on the British sense of 'fair play' which it certainly is NOT. British are scared stiff to oppose minority groups or religions as there is always some dubious rights lawyer prepared to sue them for a fat fee.
Mervyn James
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7:46pm Sat 12 Jan 13
Statistics look bad, they can say what you want them to say, but we only the other week read near 800,000 being spent by ONE LA area on basic translations, welsh is cheap at the price and least it is IN Wales and home grown. How about some stats to throw about how much the migrant uses of own languages etc cost us all ? or how much we pay to educate them in their own language,or how much we put up so they can follow their own ways ? welsh is a genuine bargain....
areyour4real says...
6:13pm Wed 9 Jan 13
This bit, and I quote,
"This argument will give you an argument for same-sex marriage but it will also give you an argument for polyandrous marriage: multi-partner marriage and incestuous marriage. This current trend of thinking in which we find ourselves is a trajectory which is going to take us further and further in this direction."
Brilliant, and in ten years you will be able to be married to a pig, a horse, two women and a Greggs Pasty.
I tell you one thing, the Churches will make a fortune!
Let's all get married!