Gay rights cause seeks respectability
Mr. Roger Fraser's tirade (Fence Post Dec. 20) excoriating the comfortable middle class of white conservatives was quite self revealing. However, Mr. Fraser obfuscates his rhetoric in the political language of civil rights and eschews the rubrics of true language and reasoned debate.
The truth is that "gay" (and hetero) cohabiters can have all of the secular, civil protections and inheritance rights provided to normal married couples. They need only draw up standard wills and other specific legal documents (as indeed normal married couples should do). In addition, most companies these days allow a dependent "life partner" for medical insurance and other employee benefits.
Anyone attacked verbally or physically can bring charges of assault and/or battery. All societal "benefits" are there for them, save one.
The truth is that what they crave is a natural acceptance by the culture of an unnatural coupling and "lifestyle." Since that won't happen organically, they wish to visit the full power of federal and state governments on those who disagree and force them into submissive acceptance.
They demand to be "licensed" into respectability. Who's intolerant now?
The truth is that this country, and Western civilization in general (grounded in Judeo-Christian ethic) is, at least, dismissively tolerant of this aberrant behavior. If the "gay community" wishes to experience true intolerance, one might suggest organizing a Gay Pride Parade in Tehran, Mecca or Beijing.
The truth is that the more we drift our society from the objective, traditional norm of natural marriage between a man and a woman, committed for life to the procreation and raising of children in a stable nuclear family (the bedrock of all successful societies) the more we devolve into cultural chaos.
Just as individuals should pursue good behavior and shun bad behavior so too should the societies they order. G.K. Chesterton wisely instructs that "those who believe in everything end up believing in nothing."
Dion F. Kendrick
Des Plaines