By: Mike Gora
Certainly I am for same sex marriage; after all I am a divorce lawyer.
But this is not about me. Why do you care?
Do you really believe that laws legally banning same sex marriage or allowing same sex marriage will increase or decrease the sexual activity between men and men, or women and women? Think of your own marriage.
Many people seem to have an immediate and irrational reaction to the thought of sex between same sex couples. Reactions to the subject in the conversations heard at water coolers all over American in the wake of President Obama’s announcement this week range from, “great” to “ooky.”
Get over it. Sex between consenting adults of opposite sexes are often described by the heterosexuals as “Great,” to “ooky.” As the religious right must admit, God created all of the body parts; God also created homosexuals and heterosexuals. Once created, nature took its course, and here we are.
It was us, all of us heterosexuals, who created guilt related to the use of body parts because it has always been human nature that fosters the anthem that “We are better than they are, because they are different.”
Before you live your life subject to this type of discrimination I suggest you have a chat with parents of a gay child, most of whom continue to love and enjoy, no matter what.
The religious right has always claimed that the perfect environment to encourage moral behavior, raise children, care for family members, honor you mother and father, ETC. is the marital state.
That same religious right has always decried the homosexual life style, which they claim, fosters serial sexual liaisons and all other types of moral depravity because that lifestyle does not support, sustain or help create that model situation, the nuclear family.
Logically, then, the religious right should be in the forefront of the promotion of gay marriage for the reason above and for many other reasons:
1. Homosexual marriages will decrease abortions, they do not get pregnant!
2. There will be so many more couples wishing to adopt unwanted children that the abortion rate will be reduced to almost nothing.
3. Homosexual marriages will reduce the birthing costs picked up by all of us, as these new adopting couples will be paying for the delivery and health care of the children being adopted.
4. Homosexuals do not use birth control pills and devices.
5. The homosexual couple are the best citizens on Wisteria lane.
When you go to church or synagogue this weekend and pray for the health and safety for your wife or husband, and your children, and all others who share the planet, including homosexuals. Who knows, you may be raising a homosexual yourself.
Michael H. Gora, Boca Raton Divorce lawyer, has been certified by the Board of Specialization of The Florida Bar as a specialist in family and matrimonial law, and is a partner with Shapiro Blasi Wasserman & Gora P.A. in Boca Raton. Questions may be submitted to Mr. Gora atmhgora@sbwlawfirm.com.