The New York Times Magazine recently profiled a group of people who pride themselves on group marriage with multiple sexual partners. Some of them even had wedding cakes with six figurines.8 Marriage-based kinship is essential to stability an continuity. Kinship imparts family names, heritage, and property, secures the identity and commitment of fathers for the sake of the children, and entails mutual obligations to the community. Same-sex relations are a negation of the ties that bind, which are the continuation of kinship through the procreation of children. Even childless married couples retain the possibility of becoming parents either biologically or through adoption, thus providing children with role models of both sexes.
Marriages benefit more than the two people involved, or even the children who are created.
Their influence reaches children living nearby, as young minds seek out clues to appropriate sexual behavior. Deliberately creating motherless or fatherless families is not remotely in the interests of children or the community, and benefits only a particular political agenda. 9 Likewise, homosexual activist Tom Stoddard, who recently died of AIDS, admitted, I am no fan of marriage. He wrote that gay marriage was merely a way of forcing society to accept homosexuality because marriage is the centerpiece of our entire social structure, the core of the traditional notion of family. But when homosexuals talk about marriage and monogamy, they mean something different from what folks usually mean.