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The Unchangeable Definition of Marriage The definition of marriage is based on the fact that all human beings, in every cell of their bodies, have either XX chromosomes if they are female or XY chromosomes if they are male. At conception, a new human being receives one X from the mother and either an X or Y chromosome from the father, determining whether they will be a boy or a girl. Even a sex change operation and hormone treatments cannot change those chromosomes. These permanent distinctions make for a permanent definition of what it means to be married. It takes a male and a female to make a marriage. This has been the legal, social, historical, and theological definition of marriage throughout the ages. On the other hand, sexual orientation, or same-sex attraction, can and does change. Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, psychiatrist and author of Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, testified at the State House on April 28 that a major study, conducted for all the U. S. government agencies tracking the AIDS epidemic, remarkably, found that 75% of boys who at age 16 think they are homosexual, will become permanently heterosexual by age 25, without any intervention! The great-nephew of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps said it best when he commented that sexual orientation is not an immutable characteristic like race. "I know former homosexuals. I do not know any former Blacks, former Hispanics or former Whites." Same-sex couples may look in some respects like a married couple but they are missing the essential element. They may have children; but an orphanage has children. That does not make it a marriage. They may have "long-term committed relationships." Parents and children, brothers and sisters and friends have long-term committed relationships. That does not make a marriage. Only the union of a woman and a man, with immutable XX and XY chromosomes in every cell of their bodies, representing the two halves of the human race, can make a marriage and produce the next generation. Do people with same-sex attraction deserve to be treated with dignity? Absolutely! Do we need to change the definition of marriage to please them? Absolutely not! The permanent definition of marriage should not be overturned to accommodate a changeable "sexual preference." Dr. Ron Crews, President |
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