Letter to the Editor

Children deserve better

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Dear editor:

I read the recent column penned by Mike Hendricks titled "The sky hasn't fallen yet" with incredulity, and quite frankly with my mouth agape.

He states that gay marriage is separating Americans, and I'm wondering which Americans does he mean? Does he mean the approximately 7 percent of Americans that are homosexual, of which only about 20 percent have been in a relationship longer than three years; as compared to the rest of the 93 percent of the country that are not homosexual? Aside from the vocal mouthpieces peppered throughout the liberal media, I have personally never heard one literal advocate for gay marriage. The most I have heard amounts to an indifferent shrug from reticent people asking, "What's the big deal?"

It's interesting that Mike steers the issue of homosexuality away from being a sin, and towards a generic social procreation issue. It's true that many cultures focused large segments of their beliefs on fertility; however there has been no documentation that I have ever even heard of to suggest that this is the case with Christianity at any stage in it's development. This argument however lays the groundwork for another clever interjection on Mr. Hendricks' behalf; the supposition that gay marriage may actually improve the divorce rate. This is so incredibly absurd, I don't know whether to find the notion repulsive, humorous or sad.

Mike, don't you remember the failed social experiment in the 60s called "free love"? Hmmm -- wasn't that about 40 year ago? Roughly about the same time you claim the divorce rate started hovering around 50 percent; I wonder if there is any connection there? Hmmm. But according to proponents of that lifestyle; that behavior had no affect on American families. Why not focus our gaze across the seas to the Scandinavian countries that adopted homosexual marriage rights starting from about 15 years ago? The social decline in those countries has literally skyrocketed, with 80 percent of their children born out of wedlock. I wonder if you asked them, if they would voice any regrets?

And to advocate a sacred marriage right to a group of people based on sexual preference is bad enough, but then to compare their stance to the civil rights movement in this country is much more than bad taste. Black communities themselves have condemned this comparison, (I reference an AP article dated 3/23/04) and even the socially tolerant Rev. Jesse Jackson has expressed his dissent toward this comparison.

Mike, our children fare much better with a mother and a father, and that is an indisputable fact. Let's not waste any more of our time and effort on supposition and social experimentation. My children, and the children of this entire planet deserve so much better than that.

Sincerely;

Michael Pochop

McCook

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