Time for compromise on same-sex marriage

                            Against same-sex marriage

Those who are for same-sex marriage should consider the following to be cogent factors in the case against its recognition:

·        The union between the male and female species is intended by nature for the issue of children and the perpetuation of the human race. It has no other purpose in nature and is devoid of all the practical and moral requirements for the survival of mankind which we ourselves must provide as legal and socially-binding rules.

·        Recognition of the union between a man and a woman has been at the foundation of community life since ancient tribal times. Whilst nature is amoral and does not care, any other kind of union is an aberration of its fundamental purpose and a deviation of a key element of long established social order. Any change is a serious matter.

·        The recognition of same-sex unions based on equality in terms of love and indifference to nature’s purpose is erroneous as a social and legal concept. Secular law knows nothing of love but its consequences. To the law, and in fact, heterosexual unions and same-sex unions are two different things. The only similarity abides in the ceremony of marriage and its celebration. Beyond that the unions are still different.

·        According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics only 0.7 percent of the living-together couples in Australia are of the same sex. Other credible studies find that only 1.2 percent of the adult population identify as homosexuals (gays and lesbians including bisexuals). It is a very small number of the population which expects the vast majority to recognise same-sex unions to be the same as theirs.