My FIRM opposition to the idea of “gay” marriage

I believe that ALL institutions that have evolved over thousands of years serve an important purpose in society.

Caste system

I have shown how the caste system was PIVOTAL to the success of India during the agricultural epoch. It ensured that basic necessary skills (e.g. blacksmithy) were ALWAYS available in each remote, decentralised village. That gave India a competitive edge over the entire world, making it unequivocally the RICHEST society (including in per capita terms) in the world for 12 out of the past 20 centuries.

The fact that India evolved the caste system is therefore, in my view, better attributable to the imperatives of economics than religion (although religion has a role in its continued persistence). Religious explanations merely couched the optimal economic equilibrium in language more suited to the lay man. 

Even today, as Gurcharan Das rightly points out, the major industrialisation drive in India is coming from the bania or capitalist “class”, which is shifting gears from trade to industrial production. Caste is giving India an advantage even in the capitalist world. 

But this should be its last advantage. Capitalism CANNOT tolerate inequality of status. In this new epoch of industrial and information production, the caste system is NOT optimal. The economic logic of capitalism will, in my view, inevitably lead to the death of the caste system. 

If only India’s governance is radically modernised.

Marriage

But the institution of marriage is not defunct and will NEVER become defunct. It serves and continues to serve a most basic purpose in society. It is the place where CHILDREN – the most important beings from the perspective of humanity and Nature – get to experience the dynamics of REAL life.

The idea of having two “dads” or two “moms” for any child (who is not naturally produced from BOTH parents) is TOTALLY perverse and harmful at ALL levels. Children in such “families” will NEVER appreciate or imbibe the basic organic structure of society. Such children are put at a disadvantage from day one.

I do NOT support the idea of damaging CHILDREN.

It is not my business nor am I interested in what two adults do with themselves. I don’t really care whether they are gay or morose.

But I am FIRMLY against the idea of a “family” unit that destroys the foundational institutions of society.

I oppose the caste system on many grounds, so clearly I’m not a conservative. I’m a (classical) liberal. But I oppose any attempt to destroy or dilute the MOST foundational institution of society: the family.

I firmly oppose the idea of two males/females being allowed to “marry” and thus “bear” children.

Obama is WRONG. I hope he is booted out by the Americans.

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