Federal Judges Bungling Same-Sex Marriage Oxymoron

U.S. Appeals Court decisions to overturn state’s bans on homosexual marriage exemplify legislating language, morals and law from the bench. Same sexes can’t marry; to marry means to join to different things together. Same-sex marriage is an oxymoron.

 

Social epistemology arising from the swamp of philosophical subjectivity to the point of solipsism flexing perquisites of aloof power can force redefinitions of social reality on the many. Yet language use and judging have objective as well as subjective components. Marriage refers not only to social and legal concepts built up by legislators and custom over centuries that are being torn down presently by federal judges, it has a physical referent as well.

 

W.V.O. Quine wrote a good philosophical-linguistic primer on analytic philosophy titled Word and Object.  I won’t venture into the field of what comprises a real object here, nevertheless there are real objectives or event-processes that exist in-the-world objectively perceptible to others and oneself socially, and that is also the realm where political issues occur. The mass media exist broadly in the realm of social language use with tremendous power to corrupt social reality in language content.

 

 Real objects and event-process(s) rather than entirely subjective-intentional ideas are the business of politics. Judges may make factual decisions in that realm generally instead of events comprising the subjective psychology or thoughts of citizens thinking-for-themselves. Marriage has a subjective social language component with traditional meaning yet also an objective material component. Word and object or material event-process concurs. Federal judges have detached from reality the word-meaning of marriage from the objective material fact of marriage.

 

Two different substances marry to create a new, third substance. To marry means to join to different substances making something new. What and flour combined make dough. In some substances such as color the union of two different colors produce a third color. Two different numbers multiplied together create another. Water of two temperatures added together make a different temperature, yet the adding together of two of the same of anything creates nothing new. There is an essential thermodynamic change in marriage that is hopefully for humans a way of developing better, more intelligent sentient beings capable of recognizing their Lord and host Jesus Christ-God (to much to hope for in Federal Appeals Court Judges perhaps).

 

I suppose a proper Socratic dialogue would look into that last point and look for an exception-there might be something witty to say; ‘Adding more public debt onto public debt creates a bigger mess than is imaginable’ or ‘adding more of the same sort of explosive will make a qualitatively different event’. Fortunately I don’t need to be so clever here in just describing the objective referent that the word marriage refers to at its core.

 

 Human beings-mammals-joined together in the social bonds called marriage are of two different sexes (substances) capable of making a third person. Human marriage is a codification of a monogamous procreative process. I would think that is why the 2012 Presidential contest was between a homosexual marriage organizer and a candidate from the historical church of polygamy-the elites of New England want to terminate marriage as a codification of monogamous procreation because of global over-population and resource depletion challenges. I would say that converting the truth to falsehood in legal language isn’t a good way to put it over on the demos.

 

The kingdom of God is as a mustard seed that started very small and grew to include very many Christians. Over the course of history since the ascension of the Lord the kingdom has simultaneously encountered the rise and fall of many nations. The U.S. Court of Appeals alumni association ought to stay right with God and the rational relationship of words and objects-event processes and forego further adulteration of the concept of marriage.