Amongst all of the brouhaha, Dear Gentle Reader(s), surrounding the passage of Proposition 8 here in California, is an oft-repeated conflation of some scientific and Biblical concepts.
The most often used is, of course, the female-male element of procreation. It is a scientific fact, with some few androgynous exceptions, as well as the old “male female He created them.”
Biblical fundamentalists, especially those who claim to believe in biblical inerrancy, use this biblical reference as their principal argument against allowing committed same-gender couples to call their union “marriage.” “God made it that way.”
While it is true that “God made it that way,” is it not strange that fundies ignore the studies of nature/God which indicate that procreation is not a rampant element of life on earth; rather it is, in most cases, rigidly controlled.
Why is it that carnivores have limited birth rates? Why is it that small herbivores and insectivores have larger litters? Why do insects and smaller fishes have such large numbers of offspring?
Generally speaking, the large populations of smaller life forms feed the larger life forms. Without the small rodent food supply of the Arctic, many wolves and certain birds of that region would perish. Population control is a form of natural birth control. Nature has put in place a very stern limit on wildlife carnivores—should they exceed that limit, starvation to the point of possible extinction is a certainty.
If one might “jump to the chase,” DGR(s), it is strange that fundies opposed to same-gender “marriage” don’t see there is a logical thread between the natural order of population control amongst wildlife species and the population control of same-gender coupling. And that coupling could very well be part of the larger plan to help control the human population of the earth—which is certainly better than war, disease, famine, and female infanticide.
Just because the desert tribes of 4,000 years ago were concerned with ethnic cleansing, if not genocide, does not mean that we ought to take their dicta as literal law of our own. We have the ability of 4,000 years of observation and learning. That should give us perspective which those desert tribes would not have been capable of achieving. Same-gender unions are generally non-reproductive, although they are certainly a stabilizing force in the society; and, as such they are a God given element of population control—and a much better one than war, famine, disease, and female infanticide.
To assert, as does a writer to the local Palm Springs newspaper:
Mistletoe, can only grow in/on trees.
It cannot grow in the earth.
Only in/on trees, Oak Trees.
Hearts of oak are our ships, and our hearts.
If mistletoe did not attach to oak trees it would cease to exist.
Oak trees, (men) mistletoe (women).
Mistletoe attaches to oak trees to survive, it cannot attach it self to other mistletoe, that is the order of things, nature's order.
Simple isn't it.
is erroneous. Nothing in nature is simple.
Here’s loving response to fundies’ outrage, Dear Gentle Reader(s), “Same-gender marriage is a blessing from God.”
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