The No Spin Zone?

Today I am coming out: I am part of the great unwashed that watches Fox News.  And I sometimes enjoy watching The O'Reilly Factor.  OK, so Bill is often rude, and always brash, but he makes good points, and doesn't let his guests get away with much.

While watching the show last night, I was completely bumfuzzled by a comment he made about same-sex marriage.  “The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals,” O’Reilly said on Fox on Tuesday. “That’s where the compelling argument is. ‘We’re Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else.’ That’s a compelling argument, and to deny that, you have got to have a very strong argument on the other side. The argument on the other side hasn’t been able to do anything but thump the Bible.”

O'Reilly is simply wrong about this.  The compelling argument is squarely on the side of those who don't want to ban traditional marriage (thanks to Dr. James White for this phrase).  And second, a strong case - compelling, even - can be made for marriage without thumping the Bible even once.

Here are a few resources:

For starters, get your hands on a pamphlet from The Ruth Institute called "77 Non-Religious Reasons to Support Man/Woman Marriage", by clicking here.

For a scholarly defense of the proposition that marriage is by it's very nature the union of a man and woman, click here.

And finally, a very good written debate can be found here.

Let the learning begin.