John Laird’s Jan. 15 column, “Some conversions begin in the heart,” offering support for homosexual marriage, was largely based on legal-equality premises.
I disagree; civil unions provide all the contractual rights adult pairs require. My premise: Heterosexual marriage is a religio-cultural contract, which primarily protects children in the basic family structure. That contract is worth protecting because heterosexual families have a superior economical and psychological benefit, public and private.
I believe that “legal-equality” usage, in this and other public matters, is an often misused device too often used to extend privileges and rights far beyond constitutional protection.
All societies contain degrees of cultural inequity based on human variance and values. Liberal persuasion has over many years vulgarized the word “discrimination.” That term was once used to delineate value judgment(s) ranging from excellent, good, marginal, abysmal, etc. Step by step we have erased the healthy process of fairly measured standards and values.
