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ONE THOUSAND REASONS
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MONITORING YOUR BEDROOM
"In Response to . . . Richard Land in Your Bedroom"
By Bruce T. Gourley
If you are a married
couple, the Religious Right wants to monitor your bedroom activities, according
to Southern Baptist mouthpiece Richard Land.
Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty
Commission, does not believe that you have the right to privacy in your
marriage. As quoted in
Baptist Press this month, Land recollected, “following
a lecture I gave at Harvard University in the spring of 2005, I was asked by a
coed: ‘Dr. Land, you seem like a nice guy. Why would you want to interfere in
the personal, private relationship of two people?’ I responded by asking how she
ever got the idea that marriage is a ‘personal, private relationship.’”
In an effort to explain why he wants to monitor the bedroom
activities of married couples, Land elaborated on the answer he had given to the
Harvard coed the previous year: “Marriage is a social and civic institution with
profound public and societal responsibilities, obligations, and consequences.
That is why every society in human history has regulated severely who can get
married to whom and under what circumstances.” Land’s decision to call for
bedroom monitoring, not surprisingly, was an effort to drive Religious Right
voters to the polls for the Congressional elections earlier this month. “The
people, not the judiciary, have the right to determine what constitutes the
institution of marriage. I urge all voters to consider the facts, to exercise
their right to cast their ballot, and to vote their values on November 7,”
declared Land.
The “people” that should determine “who can get married to whom and
under what circumstances,” are, of course, those who share the views of Richard
Land.
As to the history of regulating marriage, to which historical moral
“value” model do Land and the Religious Right wish to turn? Perhaps to the
biblical model in which the heroes of the faith had multiple wives and
concubines and women had absolutely no rights within marriage. Or perhaps there
is a yearning to implement the biblical law requiring a man to become the
husband of a deceased brother’s wife. Or maybe Land would prefer the historical
and biblical “value” that marriage should be arranged, with love and consent
having no place in the decision. On the other hand, perhaps Land and the
Religious Right favor the historical and biblical “value” that girls as young as
12 are suitable for marriage.
Richard Land’s main concern, to be certain, is the prospect of
homosexual marriage. But I wonder which would be more destructive to the social
and civic fabric of our nation: homosexual marriage, or biblical worldview
marriage consisting of polygamy, mistresses, forced nuptials, and 12
year-year-old brides?
And regardless of which of the two models Land prefers, who is going
to monitor Richard Land’s bedroom?
Any volunteers?