Legal Joining

I think that judges and lawyers could arrange a "partners-in-law" joining of gay individuals so they could be united but not truly married, for marriage in part is a religious as well as a legal joining and there is no religion in a same-sex union.

If you studied some of the writings of Sigmund Freud, you can better understand the emotionally incomplete nature of these folks. The infant child at first forms very positive emotions, for initially the child's mother and father. This persists strongly until the child becomes familiar with other children, mainly of their own sex and this persists for some years. The opposite sex is noted but generally no strong ties are formed except possibly with those other children in the same family setting. Little girls love to play with dolls and doll houses and young boys prefer cowboys and Indians and sport games; then the two sexes mingle only occasionally until the pubescent years.

During puberty, sexuality increases and both boys and girls start to make relationships with those of the opposite sex. Most of the time this is a rewarding, emotional growth, but in a sad few there are no rewards but only hurt feelings or inadequate feelings, and the individual finds that they are much more comfortable with those of their own sex and thus the progression into firm alliance that they would like to call marriage, which it cannot be, but could be legislated into a "partners-in-law." The two same-sex individuals enjoy most all of the rights of a married couple except child bearing and probably child raising.

In most married couples there are still strong alliances made with the same sex husband and wives, this is not unusual. We should all care for each other and love all friends and acquaintances; but this would not be sexual, but only true love and caring for others, including the individuals who cannot emotionally mature to the joining of the opposite sex. This is the way our Lord has requested us to do it and we should all do it His way.

James Loftus
Lake Placid