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Datum: Freitag, den 8. Oktober 2004, um 22:45 Uhr

Betrifft: Schwule an der BYU

So behandelt die "einzig wahre Kirche" menschen, die ihnen nicht passen

Gay unions blasted at Y. meeting

CORRECTION: An archived transcript of Brigham Young University philosophy professor Terry Warner’s address on the marriage debate will be available next week at ce.byu.edu/cw/fuf/archives A story in Wednesday’s paper gave an incorrect Web address.

By Tad Walch
Deseret Morning News

PROVO â€” Same-sex marriage was the target of not-so-friendly fire on the last day of the Families Under Fire conference at Brigham Young University.
BYU philosophy professor Terry Warner on Tuesday took aim at the hot-button political issue, saying marriage between a man and a woman benefits couples and children â€” therefore, society as a whole â€” in a way same-sex unions cannot.
"It is madness to destroy the most venerable of our civilization’s institutions just because a relative minority of intellectual faddists have taken to the notion that their social theory will work," he said.
Warner warned that the societal benefits of traditional marriage would disappear if marriage is extended to same-sex couples. Defenders of traditional marriage have not developed that idea successfully, he said.
"The arguments have got to make sense to a secular audience," said Warner, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors BYU. "The scriptures and words of the prophets instruct and inspire us, but they aren’t admissible on the secular battleground where the fighting is going on. I believe we need to bring into the debate aspects of marriage that don’t ordinarily get mentioned."
For example, he said, men and women think and feel differently, which allows them to bring unique, complementary and irreplaceable contributions to their unions and their families.
Same-sex marriage, he said, "cannot possibly include the expectations and growth potential of traditional marriage, because those expectations and potential arise solely from the fundamental and complementary differences between man and woman."
Some evidence shows children also develop best in family structures that include traditional marriage, Warner said.
"Our culture is not likely to produce individuals who live altruistically, with expectations of personal sacrifice, domestic order, lifelong-fidelity, patience, inward security, modesty, sobriety and reverence if the traditional order of marriage disappears in the course of a few generations."
Warner, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees at Yale University, is the latest in a line of BYU professors to speak out against same-sex marriage, including law professors Richard Wilkins and Monte Stewart. Like them, he specifically urged conferencegoers to vote for Amendment 3, which would change Utah’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Many at the conference hailed him for providing what they believed were helpful arguments against those lobbying for same-sex marriage.
His talk will be available next week in the archives section of ce.byu.edu/cw/fuf/archives.
"He said the very things I was looking for at this conference," said Margaret Yorgason of Provo. "He put things in social terms that were powerful."
Warner called same-sex marriage "a replacement kind of marriage that would weaken all marriage because it no longer would be undergirded by tradition . . . And hence marriage, redefined as a legal union of any two people, will inevitably become more casual and impermanent, and this will remain true even if some same-sex couples stay together until death."
He warned that the pressure to extend rights such as health insurance to same-sex partners does not require marriage. He also disputed arguments by the same-sex marriage lobby that granting marriage to gay couples wouldn’t damage man-woman marriage.
Warner argued gay marriage would devalue the word "marriage."
"If marriage is extended to mean the legal union of any two adults, the traditional order of marriage will thereby be set completely aside, as far as the state and the general public are concerned. A different order, which imposes drastically diminished expectations and therefore offers drastically diminished potential growth, will replace it."
Finally, he attacked arguments that those in heterosexual marriages, with their increasing rates of divorce and infidelity, no longer live so differently from those in same-sex relationships.
"The deterioration has taken place in people’s fidelity to the order of marriage," he said. "It has not been a corruption of the order of marriage itself."

Quelle: Deseret News 6.10.2004