Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:16:02 PM
This morning on the Dennis Prager show, he played a clip of his appearance on the Larry King show last night. The other guest was Perez Hilton. They were debating same sex marriage and whet her it should be legalized. Perez Hilton went straight for the fairness issue. Dennis set forward the reasons why fairness is not an issue. The important issue is that marriage is because a man and a woman both bring something different to the table.
Dennis asked Perez if he believed that men and women were the same. Perez said that they were the same except for external body parts. Obviously Perez has not been around children. Anyone who has raised a boy and a girl knows that boys and girls are different almost from day one. It is not cultural training that makes them different. It is inherent in each sex certain traits that give rise to what they are as adults. Of course, cultural training modifies this to some extent. But the inherent differences are there nonetheless.
For one thing, men and women have their brains wired differently. Women have more connections between the left and right brain than men do. There is nothing any cultural training can do to make that different. It is just a fact. That difference gives women some advantages in certain parts of life. It also gives men certain advantages in other parts of life. There is nothing right or wrong about this. It is just a fact and each of us has to live with the advantages we were given because we were a man or a woman.
Dennis Prager also brought up another great point. If you think that men and women are the same with different body parts, are the boy scouts and girl scouts discriminatory? Perez never answered that question, because the only answer is that boy and girl scouts are not discriminatory. Boys and girls are different and need different organizations to meet their needs.
Perez Hilton brought up that it used to be illegal for blacks and whites to marry. We changed the law to allow that, why not change the law to allow gays to marry? Dennis answered that there is nothing in all religious doctrine or historical secular doctrine that justified the law keeping blacks and whites from marrying. There is no religious or secular doctrine that supports same sex marriage. Dennis also pointed out that there is no difference between a black person and a white person. There is a profound difference between a man and a woman. That is why marriage is there. A man and a woman both bring something to the marriage that two men or two women cannot bring. Also, that is not saying that all marriages are perfect. All marriages are imperfect. Marriages that seem perfect are because you have two committed people that work at it every day.
Perez Hilton tried to say that there are a thousand benefits/rights to married couples that are denied to everyone else. He said that same sex marriage would open up those benefits/rights to everyone. Dennis said that those are issues that can be settled without calling a same sex union, marriage. Marriage should be between a man and a woman. Children are frequently are asked about marriage. If you add sexual confusion by asking, are you going to marry a man or a woman, you are going too far. Children should have examples of men being men and women being women. About 97% of the population is straight. Why should we add sexual confusion to children when they do not need it?
From the debate between Perez Hilton and Dennis Prager it was obvious who won. Dennis won on the issues. Dennis had all the facts on his side. Dennis had all the religious, social and cultural issues to back him up in the debate. All Perez Hilton had, was the emotional issue of “fairness” or “equality”. All of us should be treated equal. But, all of us do not have equal rights. There are some things I cannot do because I do not have the right. Other people can do those things because they have the right. That is fair because I have not earned the right. Until I earn the right, I have no basis in asking for the right. Some rights are God given, like freedom of speech. Others are earned, like higher pay because of an education. Most rights are earned. Many people hear the word rights and expect it to be given to them as a God given thing. We are getting away from the policy of earning.