Dick Cheney and Gay Marriage

Just recently former Vice President Dick Cheney gave us his views on gay marriage. Of course it is public knowledge that one of his daughters, Mary, is a homosexual and is raising a child with her lesbian partner, so I assume his comments are colored by this situation in their family.

The former Vice President said, "I think freedom means freedom for everyone. . .I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish." He went on to say that this is a state issue (a la the 10th Amendment) and not something for the federal government to deal with.

I hope the former the Vice President would like to go back and re-think his statement. People should be free to enter any kind of union they wish--any kind of arrangement they wish? You sure about that? Polygamy? I'm tempted to just say to the anti-marriage crowd (the Gay/Lesbian/Transgender groups)--"Fine, go ahead and legalize 'gay marriage.' But then also recognize as legal every single other union that anyone can think up. That means polygamy and multiple marriages." We already have polygamy going in several different religious groups in America, although it is still illegal. Why not multiple marriage--which is a little different. In that arrangement you can marry as many people--of whatever gender--you like. And you're all married! (It doesn't have to be consumated--but it's all called "marriage.") Can you imagine what this would do to property rights? What would this do to custody rights of parents over children?

People can laugh all they want, and snicker,"Oh but that's not what we want." Yeah, but that's what you'll get once you re-define marriage and make it legal for "any kind of arrangement they wish." While we're at it, why stop with unions between consenting adults? In some nations around the world, they don't even have age of consent laws. Why not get rid of age of consent laws too, and bring back forced, arranged marriages between adults and minors?

Once we ignore the "ancient boundary stones" we will be left with something we will wish we had never received. Mr. Cheney would be better served by believing and standing firm on the original design of marriage than by caving in to the "political correctness" of our downwardly spiralling culture.