GAY UNIONS BLASTED AT UTAH CONFERENCE: From the Deseret Morning News

Same-sex marriage was the target of not-so-friendly fire on the last day of the Families Under Fire conference at Brigham Young University.

BYU philosophy professor Terry Warner on Tuesday took aim at the hot-button political issue, saying marriage between a man and a woman benefits couples and children--therefore, society as a whole--in a way same-sex unions cannot.
"It is madness to destroy the most venerable of our civilization's institutions just because a relative minority of intellectual faddists have taken to the notion that their social theory will work," he said. ...

"Our culture is not likely to produce individuals who live altruistically, with expectations of personal sacrifice, domestic order, lifelong-fidelity, patience, inward security, modesty, sobriety and reverence if the traditional order of marriage disappears in the course of a few generations." ...

His talk will be available next week in the archives section of ce.byu.edu/cw/fuf/archives/. ...

Warner called same-sex marriage "a replacement kind of marriage that would weaken all marriage because it no longer would be undergirded by tradition . . . And hence marriage, redefined as a legal union of any two people, will inevitably become more casual and impermanent, and this will remain true even if some same-sex couples stay together until death."

He warned that the pressure to extend rights such as health insurance to same-sex partners does not require marriage. He also disputed arguments by the same-sex marriage lobby that granting marriage to gay couples wouldn't damage man-woman marriage.

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