A new future for marriage?
A new future for marriage?
Letters to the Editor
Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times
December 5, 2006
I read an article [Nov. 23] in the Washington Post that ''in France, the country that evokes more images of romance than perhaps any other, marriage has increasingly fallen out of favor. Growing numbers of couples are choosing to raise children, buy homes and build family lives without religious or civil approval of their partnerships.''
I read on Nov. 22 an article by an Associate Press writer that stated: ''Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly 4 in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.'' This while teen births are dropping.
This brought back memories of an article published Oct. 15 that said: ''Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of U.S. households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by the New York Times.''
Are all of you heterosexuals getting the picture? You have destroyed the institution of marriage all on your own. As a friend told me recently: ''You gays should be allowed to marry, so you can suffer with the rest of us.''
So why have Freedom to Marry, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and many gay activists launched themselves to obtain the right to marry? Is it because they want to be as miserable as straight people? No, I think they truly believe they can save the institution of marriage for all heterosexuals.
Let's face it: When I was working as an obstetrician-gynecologist in the conservative western suburbs of Chicago, not only was I in the closet, but I also was working twice as hard as my straight counterparts. I took calls on all the holidays (because I had no family to take care of), and I took any extra call that my equal partners did not want, simply because my sense of insecurity drove me to be the best gynecologist in town. I felt it was my duty to overcome my ''gayness'' by working extra hard.
Could it be that this is the same force that is driving the GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual] movement? Tired of being denied rights under the 14th Amendment of our Constitution, which states ''No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,'' they are willing to take on the institution of marriage and clean it up.
The 1999 movie ''American Beauty'' is the best example of what I'm trying to expose. The only normal couple in the movie was the gay couple.
If same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land, as in Massachusetts, will the straight couples emulate us, just as they do on everything that we do best: arts, decorating, hairdressing, beauty, harmony, etc.? Is this the true motivation (other than being tired of being second-class citizens) behind the same-sex marriage movement?
Before you answer, please take a moment to examine your own heterosexual marriage and tell me how happy you are in it.
Carlos T. Mock, M.D.,
Uptown
Letters to the Editor
Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times
December 5, 2006
I read an article [Nov. 23] in the Washington Post that ''in France, the country that evokes more images of romance than perhaps any other, marriage has increasingly fallen out of favor. Growing numbers of couples are choosing to raise children, buy homes and build family lives without religious or civil approval of their partnerships.''
I read on Nov. 22 an article by an Associate Press writer that stated: ''Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly 4 in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.'' This while teen births are dropping.
This brought back memories of an article published Oct. 15 that said: ''Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of U.S. households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by the New York Times.''
Are all of you heterosexuals getting the picture? You have destroyed the institution of marriage all on your own. As a friend told me recently: ''You gays should be allowed to marry, so you can suffer with the rest of us.''
So why have Freedom to Marry, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and many gay activists launched themselves to obtain the right to marry? Is it because they want to be as miserable as straight people? No, I think they truly believe they can save the institution of marriage for all heterosexuals.
Let's face it: When I was working as an obstetrician-gynecologist in the conservative western suburbs of Chicago, not only was I in the closet, but I also was working twice as hard as my straight counterparts. I took calls on all the holidays (because I had no family to take care of), and I took any extra call that my equal partners did not want, simply because my sense of insecurity drove me to be the best gynecologist in town. I felt it was my duty to overcome my ''gayness'' by working extra hard.
Could it be that this is the same force that is driving the GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual] movement? Tired of being denied rights under the 14th Amendment of our Constitution, which states ''No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,'' they are willing to take on the institution of marriage and clean it up.
The 1999 movie ''American Beauty'' is the best example of what I'm trying to expose. The only normal couple in the movie was the gay couple.
If same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land, as in Massachusetts, will the straight couples emulate us, just as they do on everything that we do best: arts, decorating, hairdressing, beauty, harmony, etc.? Is this the true motivation (other than being tired of being second-class citizens) behind the same-sex marriage movement?
Before you answer, please take a moment to examine your own heterosexual marriage and tell me how happy you are in it.
Carlos T. Mock, M.D.,
Uptown
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