Not All Loves Make Us Happy, But Same-Sex Marriage Bill Demands We Pretend Otherwise

Not every love will make us happy. We know this in our bones: “He’s no good for you” or “she’s making you miserable” or “I know you love walking the dog, grandma, but he’s going to knock you down.” And yet, the U.S. Congress is about to pass a bill into law that runs directly against this obvious, freeing truth: that we need to love the right things, in the right way, at the right time, in the right measure for our loves to make us happy.

The so-called Respect for Marriage bill, slinking its way through Congress during the current lame-duck session, claims to protect and respect marriage between any two individuals. The problem with this claim is two-fold.

First, it is obviously wrong on its face that marriage between any two people is worthy of respect or protection. If California’s legislature introduced, let’s say, the Malibu Child Bride bill and it was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who would be willing to say such awful marriages of adults to young minors were worthy of respect?

“But they consented,” one might reply. Did they though? Yet, regardless of our inability to peer into the hearts of perverse adults and abused children, we need not respect or protect such marriages. But that is exactly what this bill says we all must do, each of us, in our states, in our communities, in our businesses, schools, and churches, and in our very persons before the public. The bill claims the opposite of the truth and demands by law that we all chant as one: “Every love will make us happy!” Alas, we know the truth: Not every love will make us happy.

The second problem with the bill’s claim to protect marriage between any two individuals is that it is obvious to all that many, many Americans not only know, but deeply believe, both morally and religiously, that same, timeless truth: Not every love will make us happy. In fact, today many Americans, like nearly all Americans in the previous millennium, consider marriage to be a special institution designed for the sexual love of man and woman.

Many Americans uphold this kind of sexual love as a kind of love that will make us happy; conversely, they both think and believe that marriage between a child and adult, a man and man, or a woman and woman is a contradiction in terms, because the purpose of using the word “marriage” is for the pair to declare to the world that “this love will make us happy.”

And if the pair declares that, then the pair will also demand that others who may not think such a love will lead the pair to happiness must nevertheless, as the bill title puts it, “respect” and protect that love as a “marriage.” The pair will attempt to force those other people to pretend that they think and believe as the pair does. The pair will attempt to coerce many,

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