To no one surprise, the American Psychiatric Association, well known (by me at least) as a source of liberal propaganda, has come out in support of homosexual "marriages."[1] Last week, Boundless published an article on marriage, and the competing social views of it, that I thought hit home particularly well.[2] It proposes that there are three views of marriage: 1)the traditional model, based on sexual complementarity and marriage as an institution 2)the choice model, looking at marriage essentially as an agreement between sovereign selves, and 3)the postmodern, looking at marriage as a codification of "the 'web of interdependence' that is created by this interaction with another person." Only in the second two does the idea of a homosexual "marriage" make any sense, but only the first is the basis for a true marriage. Unfortunately, even some Catholics have lost track of the fact that marriage is more than just a social contract, and even more have forgotten or rejected the concept of the sexes being complementary.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4573461.stm
[2]
http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001086.cfm