Opponents insist that same-sex marriage is a threat to “traditional” marriage. They are right.
But the threat isn’t about marriage. It’s about gender and its strict rules. It’s about girl/boy. It’s about man/woman. It’s about husband/wife. It is about, if they can bend the rules . . .
When a man and woman marry, he is not required to be husband and she is not required to be wife?
This is scary. This is a bit too much freedom of choice. This is, what do you mean we can make our own rules? This is, how do I know what to do? How do I know who to be?
That ground is too shaky. It could open up and swallow us. Let’s go back to solid ground. Let’s go back to where I know what to do, where I know who to be.
Let’s stop changing things.
We had just begun to accept that men could love men and women could love women, but now you want us to accept that man and woman are flexible things?
This is a world too far.
Next you will insist that there are more than two genders.
This is the fourth in a series about gender. The others are:
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