Scott Yost at the Rhino Times: "The band Meatloaf famously sang, 'Two out of three ain’t bad...'"
Sigh.
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Gary Marschall's big ol' gaping logic hole
GREENSBORO, NC -- The News & Record publishes a letter today from one Gary Marschall of Greensboro in which Mr. Marschall lights his hair on fire, warns of same sex marriage marking the end of "our culture" and laments: "If only reason and logic would rule."
Mr. Marschall then proceeds to send his screed down a sink hole void of the very logic and reason he just wrote should prevail.
The reason Mr. Marschall has for thinking the Supreme Court should reject same sex marriage? Because there is, he writes, no "homosexual gene." Therefore, he concludes, homosexuality must be a "choice to fill felt needs" and such motivations do not justify a marriage.
Science agrees with Mr. Marschall, there does not appear to be a single determinant of sexual orientation.
And now for that logic and reason Mr. Marschall pleads for...
Just as there is no "homosexual gene" there is also no heterosexual gene. Mr. Marschall's sexual orientation is also merely a "choice to fill felt needs." Because that was his point: That without a gene to explain one's sexual desires, they can only be a choice.
Of course, for Mr. Marschall, his "felt needs" are God-ordained. He has every right to believe that, as I'm sure many gay people do also, but when he worries about damage to America's culture, he should take heart.
The issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court is not about mortals trying to read the mind of God, it is about what the Constitution of the United States of America says about equality; about whether a man who loves a woman has the same rights to legally sanctify that union as does a man who loves a man. Do adults acting on their "felt needs" have the right to be treated equally under the law?
The promise that they do is American bedrock. God bless America.
Mr. Marschall then proceeds to send his screed down a sink hole void of the very logic and reason he just wrote should prevail.
The reason Mr. Marschall has for thinking the Supreme Court should reject same sex marriage? Because there is, he writes, no "homosexual gene." Therefore, he concludes, homosexuality must be a "choice to fill felt needs" and such motivations do not justify a marriage.
Science agrees with Mr. Marschall, there does not appear to be a single determinant of sexual orientation.
And now for that logic and reason Mr. Marschall pleads for...
Just as there is no "homosexual gene" there is also no heterosexual gene. Mr. Marschall's sexual orientation is also merely a "choice to fill felt needs." Because that was his point: That without a gene to explain one's sexual desires, they can only be a choice.
Of course, for Mr. Marschall, his "felt needs" are God-ordained. He has every right to believe that, as I'm sure many gay people do also, but when he worries about damage to America's culture, he should take heart.
The issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court is not about mortals trying to read the mind of God, it is about what the Constitution of the United States of America says about equality; about whether a man who loves a woman has the same rights to legally sanctify that union as does a man who loves a man. Do adults acting on their "felt needs" have the right to be treated equally under the law?
The promise that they do is American bedrock. God bless America.
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