[UUPoly-L] "What if we all did that?"

["Alisa WW" <alisaww@comcast.net>]

My mother asked:  What if we all did that?

What a quaint question.  Assuming we are only looking at relationship 
questions - since someone else pointed out that we can't all choose the same 
career choice.  Diversity in our choices is imperative in our society.

So, only looking at relationship choices, let's see what would happen if we 
all made the same choice.

Same sex marriage:  If everyone - and I mean everyone chooses to marry 
someone of the same gender and be monogonmous, the end of child bearing 
would be in sight.  Not everyone would be able to afford artificial 
insemination.  Our birthrates would sky dive over 10 years - and whereas we 
might like that on a world wide basis, it is imbalanced to do so on a 
country by country or continenent by continent or religion by religion 
basis.  Consequently, according to this line of reasoning, the same sex 
marriage decision is wrong since it would be wrong if everyone did this.  I 
sincerely doubt that the minister in question would want to espouce the idea 
that same-sex couples should not marry.

Heterosexual couples who choose to not have children:  What if we all did 
this - same result as above, more or less.  So, heterosexual couples who 
choose to not have children are wrong, because of the effect it would have 
if we all made that same decision?

This minister is sounding more Mormon than Unitarian Universalist to me. 
I'm having visions of the Stepford Wives, universal conformity, etc.  This 
is not the type of society I want to be a part of!!!

Alisa