Socrates, Plato and Aristotle clearly defined marriage before the dawn of Christianity. All subsequent, rational civilizations continue to employ their logic. Our definition of truth, our court system, our concepts of life, liberty and justice, family and government all stem from their lucid thinking.
They succinctly state that every human action has a primary and secondary end. Each action is determined good or bad based on its fulfilling its primary end. The primary end of marriage is the begetting and rearing of children and each act can have only one primary end!
Pleasure and compatibility, as a secondary end, in no way determine the natural family unit. If one accepts pleasure and compatibility as the primary end of marriage, logic would demand that incest, polygamy, polyandry, and bestiality equally provide marital status.
A civil right, any civil right, presupposes the individual possesses the ability to perform the given act which they claim a right to, in this case, reproduction. Homosexual pairing does not possess this ability and therefore by definition, does not, nor cannot, possess marital status.
Constructed families, heterosexual couples unable to reproduce and who adopt children or heterosexual couples procreating and rearing children out of wedlock, exist at the prerogative of natural families who have determined that children, under their care, can receive the natural and necessary training granted by male and female components of the species.
Early in 2013 the Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, boldly declared that what is primarily at stake in “gay marriage,” later approved by the French Parliament, is the well being of children. He forewarned grave and egregious harm to both the children of France and the very fabric of French society itself.
First and foremost, he stated that the net effect of “gay marriage” would result in a changed status for the child. The child now gravitates from subject to object where non-related individuals acquire rights of acquisition. Secondly, “gay marriage” would produce an irreversible scramble of genealogy striking at the concept of clan and family identity, as well as substituting parenting for the more vital role of fatherhood and motherhood. He finally proclaims that by endorsing “gay marriage” we have obliterated sexual identity moving from a hardwired, natural given to sexuality as a socially constructed status.
Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, both foundational documents for viable democracies, clearly, succinctly and emphatically state that the natural family, composed of man and woman, in contractual union and, capable of reproducing, is the natural primary unit of society. It has the sole power to define itself. Plato and Aristotle continue to explain that families band together to create the state to promote their mutual interests.
The natural family -having created the state – defines the state. The state does not, and cannot, define the family. The state remains subsidiary to the family and merely exists to protect the primary unit of society, the natural family.
The conclusion is stark: as the primary unit of society, the family has the natural right to dissolve any state that abrogates its rights!
--Xavier Rynne