Dennis Prager: Same sex marriage is ‘war on gender’

Marriage is pro-gender.  Or it oughta be. 

That’s the problem with same sex marriage.  It discriminates and segregates according to gender.  By it’s very definition it excludes fathers from some households and mothers from others.  In other words, same sex marriage is anti-gender.  As Dennis Prager puts it, SSM is a “war on gender.”

From Prager's article,  “Why a Good Person Can Vote Against Same-Sex Marriage:” 

So, the question is whether redefining in the most radical way ever conceived -- indeed completely changing its intended meaning -- is good for society. 

It isn't. 

The major reason is this: Gender increasingly no longer matters. There is a fierce battle taking place to render meaningless the man-woman distinction, the most important distinction regarding human beings' personal identity. Nothing would accomplish this as much as same-sex marriage. 

The whole premise of same-sex marriage is that gender is insignificant: It doesn't matter whether you marry a man or a woman. Love, not gender, matters. 

Some examples of this war on gender: 

--This year Harvard University appointed its first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. The individual, Vanidy Bailey, has asked that he/she never be referred to as he or she, male or female. Harvard has agreed. 

--In 2010 eHarmony, for years the country's largest online dating service, was sued for only matching men and women. Its lack of same-sex matchmaking meant that it violated anti-discrimination laws in some states. As a result, eHarmony was forced to begin a same-sex online service. 

--Each year more and more American high schools elect girls as homecoming kings and boys as homecoming queens. Students have been taught to regard restricting kings to males or queens to females as (gender-based) discrimination. 

--When you sign up for the new social networking site, Google Plus, you are asked to identify your gender. Three choices are offered: Male, Female, Other. 

--Catholic Charities, which operates the oldest ongoing adoption services in America, has had to end its adoption work in Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, DC because the governments there regard placing children with married man-woman couples before same-sex couples as discriminatory.

Defend pro-gender marriage.  Because gender matters to everyone, including people with same sex attraction.