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Entry: Gay Marriage Sucks! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/gay_marriage_sucks#31559 Post contents: Sebastian wtote: "One issue that is always ignored is what open acceptance of homosexuality does to male friendship, especially among teenagers." Excellent article, Justin. The "gay lifestyle" is really not much different from the heterosexual hedonist "Playboy Philosophy" or the "Cosmo Magazine/Sex in the City" lifestyles: it is the devaluation of sex into a form of materialistic consumerism. The very idea makes a mockery of human intimacy. Consequently, it has nothing to do with the ancient ideal of "pure" love between males, which often as not non-sexual. I would agree with Sebastian that a unmentioned victim of the cultural pre-occupation with the "gay" ethos is adolescent and teenage boys. Any intimacy or close friendship, any touching invites immediate accusations of being homosexual. Adolescent boys who develop perfectly innocent--and often natural---attachments to older guys are told that this means they were "born gay", and are "sissies"...and worse. Often they are beat up and harrassed. They enter the "gay lifestyle", and spend the rest of their lives trying to reconcile their sensitive natures with the superficiality and lack of intimacy in the hedonistic "gay lifestyle". The old idea of "it's just a phase" is now reversed, and they are told their close attachments in youth now makes them "born gay". Justin, one thing I wished you mentioned in your article was the legal "alternatives" to marriage available to gays/lesbians---as well as everyone else---in contract law. Gay men in the AIDs crisis developed and made legit legal contracts like Power of Attorney, Living Wills, co-habitation agreements, and a host of other legal precedents that truely offered a "libertarian"--ie marriage outside of the state---alternatives to marriage. Sent at: 2008 11 20