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Why is Homosexual Marriage being Compared to Civil Rights? By Jamiel Terry for WebToday
DERBY, VERMONT, September 1, 2000 (WebToday)--The answer is simple, "He who defines the terms wins the debate." It is an age old saying, but beautifully applies to the situation that we have before us.
Why has the homosexual movement been able to get away with this obvious affront to those individuals like myself who truly are of a minority in this country? Because a liberal sympathetic media has repeated it so much that it is now truth to some individuals.
The Supreme Court in 1986 stated, "Groups wanting protected status must meet the following qualifications: They must be identifiable by an unchanging physical characteristic, they must prove prior discrimination in such areas as income, educational opportunities, and political power."
Let's address each demand of the Supreme Court individually as they apply to homosexuals.
First, an "unchangeable characteristic." There have literally been thousands of documented cases of people who identified themselves as homosexual, who have chosen to stop engaging in that type of sex. I could never choose to make my skin turn from brown to white, but I can choose what kind of sex I have. I believe that it is not our feelings that make us homosexual or heterosexual necessarily, but our actions. We can say one thing, and do another.
Second, "They must prove prior discrimination in such areas as income." There have been a number of studies done that show that gay men make almost twice as much as the average American. I believe it for three reasons: A) They are men, and men usually make more than women in the same job, B) They rarely have children and are therefore able to put more time, and energy into their work life, and C) Two men living together, and sharing a combined income, would be more than the average married man and woman. Parts of these opinions would apply to lesbians also.
Another major point is this, when I walk in for an interview my skin color is immediately known, and either judged or not judged. The only way that anyone knows for sure that you are gay in an interview, or in the workplace, is if you tell him or her. I don't think that the type of sex that someone has is something that has to be told or known in a working environment.
Third, "educational opportunities." The same principles from above applies here, the last time I checked there was not a spot for heterosexual, or homosexual on a college application. If you don't "say you're gay", they won't know.
Four, "political power." The homosexual lobby is the fourth largest lobbying group in the nation, and that is out of over 4,000 others. There are prominent men in the Congress and the Senate who are homosexual. Congressmen Barney Frank and Mr. Colby, and here in the Vermont Legislature William Lippert, are just a few, and I am sure that there are more.
The point is, homosexuals cannot prove discrimination. Homosexuality is the type of behavior that no one knows unless you tell those around you.
There is no scientific or medical evidence that one is born homosexual. All research done on the subject has later been proven fallible.
That is not to say that people are not born with tendencies for one way or the other, but we need to deal with those feelings the same way we do with other things that we ought not do: Don't do them.
Allow me to draw a parallel. If someone thinks about lying, but doesn't, does it make them a liar? Of course not. Homosexuality is something that some might be drawn to, but if one shows self-control it is something that one can be free from. Eventually a natural sex life in the marriage covenant will succeed.
Here is one more angle. My being of a different ethnic background from most of those around me hurts no one, nor does it hurt society as a whole, but homosexual sex does. These are medical statistics. If you are a homosexual and these statistics don't hold true for you, remember that these are averages. Some may not apply to your life.
50% of homosexuals had their first same-sex experience with an adult by the age of 14 (SIGMA Project 1992). Some may say about this statistic that the adult individuals were heterosexual men; I beg to differ, even if a man is married, if the man has sex with another man he has committed a homosexual act, and he is therefore homosexual until he ceases his behavior.
The average homosexual has 50 partners per year, and 79% of the time with strangers (USA Today 1984)
The average life span of an American male is 74 years, but the average life span of the homosexual male is 41 years., and 44 years for lesbians (CRM 1996).
91% of American AIDS cases have been traced to homosexual sex, intravenous drug use, or some combination of the two (Journal of the American Medical Assoc.).
If the homosexual life-style was natural, normal, and a civil right, it would not cause death, disease, and largely contribute to the one of the most serious epidemics the world has ever seen.
Homosexual marriage is not a civil right. A homosexual man has every right that I do. He can marry a woman; so can I; I can't marry a man; neither can he.
Not only is traditional marriage a benefit to society, but God also instituted it. It has been between a man and a woman since the beginning of time. There is no reason, nor can we change what marriage is. Even though the state of Vermont, where I am working with STARS to help overturn homosexual marriage, has redefined marriage, marriage only can, and always will be between a man and a woman!
It is not government's place to, in the name of civil rights, to condone sexual choices that harm society as a whole, or to pass laws contrary to the laws of God, upon which this country was founded.
--Jamiel Terry HYPERLINK "http://www.starsvermont.org" (802) 766-5437
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