Equal Opportunity

There’s a bill before Parliament to allow "Gay marriage" in New Zealand on the basis of equal opportunity.

Parliament can legally call marriage what it likes but, law or not, homosexual marriage and heterosexual marriage are as different as apples and oranges and no new legal definition will change that.

I'm reminded of what feminist author, Robin Morgan, said: "We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."

Roderick C Meredith wrote recently about young people today not being aware of "a time when Western society truly upheld the values of respect for the family unit, the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman, a basic standard of morality ... and the protection of all human life..."

He says that today's idea of morality is: "If it feels good, do it!" He explains that the majority "now look to themselves through the prism of their own vanities and lusts to decide what is right and what is wrong."

No doubt the younger generation will see euthanasia as a way of silencing us both. We are, after all, over forty and that's too long to stick around and want our minority views to prevail. Lol.