| − | The Roman Law{{#tag:ref|The terms, concepts and principles of Roman law became the basis that grown into the contemporary Western and European [[legal]] culture with its generally recognized international terminology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Základy práva, potreba práva, podstata práva, spätosť práva zo štátom, vzťah štát – sloboda – moc. (The Law Fundamentals etc.) |publisher=Gymnázium Martina Kukučína v Revúcej |place=Revúca|url=http://www.gmk-ra.sk/dokument/pravo.doc |accessdate=October 26, 2014 |quote=Pojmy a princípy rímskeho práva sa stali základom, z ktorého vyrástla európska právna kultúra so všeobecne uznávanou medzinárodnou terminológiou.|language=Slovak}}</ref>|group=note}} (namely jurist ''Modestinus'') defined [[marriage]] (Latin: ''Matrimonium'') as a union between man and woman, an association for the whole life, a community of humane and divine life.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Homosexuals do not see marriage as an essentially divine institution."'' in [[Gnosticism#Gnostic traits in LGBT Ideology|Gnostic traits in LGBT Ideology]]|group=note}}{{#tag:ref|”Latin: ''Nuptiae sunt coniunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani iuris communicatio”'' (D.23.,2,1)<ref>{{cite book |title=Rímske Právo (The Roman Law) |author=Karol Rebro, Peter Blaho |publisher=IURA Edition |place=Bratislava |pages=67, 170 |isbn=978-80-8078-352-5|url= http://books.google.no/books?id=ph9GAAAACAAJ&dq=Rebro+Rímske+Právo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Hh1NVPSPJoutaYCvgdgL&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA|quote=Nemožno prehliadať, že rímskoprávna terminológia sa stala prevažne medzinárodnou právnou terminológiou a že až dodnes sa v právnickej literatúre a vyjadrovaní používajú ako odborná výzbroj rôzne rímskoprávne definície, maximy, sentencie a aforizmy. Faktom je že nejeden pojem z rímskeho práva sa stal súčasťou európskej právnej kultúry, dokonca aj právnych poriadkov, ...Manželstvo (matrimonium) 1. Tak agnátska, ako aj kognátska rodina zásadne predpokladali manželstvo (''matrimonium'' alebo ''nuptiae''). Právnik modestinus definoval rímske manželstvo ako "zväzok muža a ženy aceloživotné spoločenstvo, spoločenstvo podľa božského i ľudského práva" - ''Nuptiae sunt coniunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani iuris communicatio (D.23,2,1)'' Rimania nepokladali manželstvo ani za sviatosť, ani za zmluvný vzťah alebo za vzťah podobný zmluvnému vzťahu, ale jednoducho za spoločnskú skutočnosť, ktorej priznávali právne účinky. V dôsledku toho bolo manželstvo skutočným životným spoločenstvom muža a ženy s manželským povedomím a náklonnosťou (''affectio maritalis''). Toto manželské povedomie, totiž vôľa byť si navzájom manželom a manželkou, nebolo iba predpokladom vzniku, ale bolo trvalo podmienkou existencie manželstva.|language=Slovak, Latin}}</ref>|group=note}} The main aim of the marriage was a [[procreation]] of [[legitimate]] children.<ref>{{cite book |title= Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law |volume= 43 |author= Adolf Berger |publisher= American Philosophical Society |year=1968 |page=578|isbn= 9780871694324 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=oR0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA578&lpg=PA578&dq=modestinus+matrimonium&source=bl&ots=sTJtR_iz8B&sig=HN2aeK9uPbkUei0coiPOdMnAXHk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bRdNVLLtK4XmaOmmgagP&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=modestinus%20matrimonium&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code |author=William Alexander Hunter |publisher=Sweet & Maxwell |year=1803 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5HgMAAAAYAAJ&q=Modestinus+D.23%2C+2%2C1#v=snippet&q=Modestinus%20D.23%2C%202%2C1&f=false}}</ref> | + | The Roman Law{{#tag:ref|The terms, concepts and principles of Roman law became the basis that grown into the contemporary Western and European [[legal]] culture with its generally recognized international terminology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Základy práva, potreba práva, podstata práva, spätosť práva zo štátom, vzťah štát – sloboda – moc. (The Law Fundamentals etc.) |publisher=Gymnázium Martina Kukučína v Revúcej |place=Revúca|url=http://www.gmk-ra.sk/dokument/pravo.doc |accessdate=October 26, 2014 |quote=Pojmy a princípy rímskeho práva sa stali základom, z ktorého vyrástla európska právna kultúra so všeobecne uznávanou medzinárodnou terminológiou.|language=Slovak}}</ref>|group=note}} (namely jurist ''Modestinus'') defined [[marriage]] (Latin: ''Matrimonium'') as a union between man and woman, an association for the whole life, a community of humane and divine life.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Homosexuals do not see marriage as an essentially divine institution."'' in [[Gnosticism#Gnostic traits in LGBT Ideology|Gnostic traits in LGBT Ideology]]|group=note}}{{#tag:ref|”Latin: ''Nuptiae sunt coniunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani iuris communicatio”'' (D.23.,2,1)<ref>{{cite book |title=Rímske Právo (The Roman Law) |author=Karol Rebro, Peter Blaho |publisher=IURA Edition |place=Bratislava |pages=67, 170 |isbn=978-80-8078-352-5|url= http://books.google.no/books?id=ph9GAAAACAAJ&dq=Rebro+Rímske+Právo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Hh1NVPSPJoutaYCvgdgL&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA|quote=Nemožno prehliadať, že rímskoprávna terminológia sa stala prevažne medzinárodnou právnou terminológiou a že až dodnes sa v právnickej literatúre a vyjadrovaní používajú ako odborná výzbroj rôzne rímskoprávne definície, maximy, sentencie a aforizmy. Faktom je že nejeden pojem z rímskeho práva sa stal súčasťou európskej právnej kultúry, dokonca aj právnych poriadkov, ...Manželstvo (matrimonium) 1. Tak agnátska, ako aj kognátska rodina zásadne predpokladali manželstvo (''matrimonium'' alebo ''nuptiae''). Právnik modestinus definoval rímske manželstvo ako "zväzok muža a ženy aceloživotné spoločenstvo, spoločenstvo podľa božského i ľudského práva" - ''Nuptiae sunt coniunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani iuris communicatio (D.23,2,1)'' Rimania nepokladali manželstvo ani za sviatosť, ani za zmluvný vzťah alebo za vzťah podobný zmluvnému vzťahu, ale jednoducho za spoločnskú skutočnosť, ktorej priznávali právne účinky. V dôsledku toho bolo manželstvo skutočným životným spoločenstvom muža a ženy s manželským povedomím a náklonnosťou (''affectio maritalis''). Toto manželské povedomie, totiž vôľa byť si navzájom manželom a manželkou, nebolo iba predpokladom vzniku, ale bolo trvalo podmienkou existencie manželstva.|language=Slovak, Latin}}</ref>|group=note}} The main aim of the marriage was a [[procreation]] of [[legitimate]] children.<ref>{{cite book |title= Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law |volume= 43 |author= Adolf Berger |publisher= American Philosophical Society |year=1968 |page=578|isbn= 9780871694324 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=oR0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA578&lpg=PA578&dq=modestinus+matrimonium&source=bl&ots=sTJtR_iz8B&sig=HN2aeK9uPbkUei0coiPOdMnAXHk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bRdNVLLtK4XmaOmmgagP&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=modestinus%20matrimonium&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code |author=William Alexander Hunter |publisher=Sweet & Maxwell |year=1803 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5HgMAAAAYAAJ&q=Modestinus+D.23%2C+2%2C1#v=snippet&q=Modestinus%20D.23%2C%202%2C1&f=false}}</ref> |
| − | The notion of [[objective]] truth and reality about humans as two equal and complementary sexes —male and female — was recognized also by modern-day scientists in the form of pictorial message consisting in figures of a man and a woman engraveded onto gold-anodized plaques, which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 [[spacecraft]]s, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Message from Earth |author=Sagan C., Sagan L. S. and Drake F. |url= http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/plaque-2.jpg |accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> It is also present in many cultural expressions such as Swedish musical ensemble [[Sweden#Some Notable Swedes|ABBA]]’s song “One Man One Woman.”<ref>{{cite web |title= One Man One Woman |author=ABBA |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APaS5tc-a0M |accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> | + | The notion of [[objective]] truth and reality about humans as two equal and complementary sexes —male and female — was recognized also by modern-day scientists in the form of pictorial message consisting in figures of a man and a woman engraveded onto gold-anodized plaques, which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 [[spacecraft]]s, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Message from Earth |author=Sagan C., Sagan L. S. and Drake F. |url= http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/plaque-2.jpg |accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> It is also present in many cultural expressions such as Swedish musical ensemble [[Sweden#Some Notable Swedes|ABBA]]’s song “One Man One Woman.”<ref>{{cite web |title= One Man One Woman |author=ABBA |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APaS5tc-a0M |accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> |
| − | The actual thought experiment aiming to resolve this question consists in imagining a ''group of people'', a ''pattern'' subject of research, that would consider as ''normal'' and ''normative'' solely the [[homosexual]] behavior. If such norm would be applied onto all members of the ''tested group'', so that all of them would be ''"normalized"'' accordingly, the society that would adopt such twisted normative approach would simply ''die out'' or depend on ''unnatural methods'' of [[reproduction]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SODOM (documentary) |author=Arkady Mamontov |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWLsblbFNU&feature=youtu.be&t=1092|pages=18min:14sec |quote=The Fertility Institute in L.A., this is the first clinic that offered the surrogacy to sodmites. |accessdate=14 Feb 2016}}</ref> The result of this [[experiment]] is predictable with ''absolute'' degree of certainty beyond any doubt. Same-sex relations are ''essentially'' sterile, intrinsically unfit for generation, while compatible opposite-sex relations are intrinsically generative and only ''accidentally'' infertile. There is nothing a same-sex couple could do at any time or in any way that would render their relations fertile. The opposite is true of the vast majority of compatible opposite-sex couples, who would actively have to do something to render their relations infertile.<ref name="Reilly2014">{{cite book |title=Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything |author=Robert R. Reilly |publisher=Ignatius Press |place=San Francisco |pages=95, 100, 128 |isbn=978-1-58617-833-8 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-JTobNH80}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Privations such as infertility, blindness, a missing arm. leg. etc. are accidental properties, not substantial. Accidental properties, such as privations, do not change the formal aspect of the subject. Just because a man is blind does not change the fact that he is a man, nor does it change the fact that the primary intelligible end of the eye is color and light. ... When a part fails to function properly we attempt to correct it rather than change our conceptualization of what it is altogether.<ref name="Reilly2014"/><ref name="Sorba2010">{{cite web |title=The Essence of Marriage: Rational-Charitable Marriage versus Hedonistic Prideful-Marriage |author=Ryan Sorba |publisher=Conservative Author, Activist, and TV News Personality |date=30 Sep 2010 |url=http://ryansorba.blogspot.com/2010/09/essence-of-marriage.html |accessdate=14 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} Therefore, the conclusive statement inevitably must be that not only the same-sex relationships do not secure the integrity of the society, but also act in counter-direction, endanger its very existence and disintegrate it. In order to maintain the sustainability of society, they must be left devoid of legal support with respect to any form of marriage, i.e. institution with a special status arranging i.a. the sexual relationships of humans and representing the conceptual framework for the [[family]] unit that is the basic building block of civilized society. Sodomites cannot make a society, nor keep ours going for very long. The legal disadvantages against sodomitical and other partnerships are there for the purpose of shaping behavior in a certain way to the general benefit of society and for discouraging behavior that undermines it.<ref name="Reilly2014"/> According to [[Nazi]] resister [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], state should regard for necessary to apply restrictions in the realms of marriage. These restrictions are not an act of arbitrariness or self-will, but rather outcome of fact that natural boundaries and choices are not sufficient safeguard against various blunders and errors that may cause serious harm to society and state. Thus, in order to maintain the [[Natural order]], it is inevitable to restrict and regulate the choices of citizens by positive state law.<ref name="Bonhoeffer:Ethik">{{cite book |title=Etika (Ethics, in the German original 'Ethik') |author=Dietrich Bonhoeffer |publisher=Kalich |place=Prague |year= 2007 |chapter=Přirozené (Natural) |pages=176–7 |language=Czech}}</ref> Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family, on the basis of which it would be possible to reasonably justify the legal recognition of such unions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Predseda KBS k pojmu “manželský partner”: Súdny dvor EÚ nemôže zmeniť zmýšľanie spoločnosti (The president of Episcopal Conference of Slovakia on the term "married partner": The Court of Justice of the European Union cannot change the mindset of society) |author=Stanislav Zvolenský |publisher=HS |date=16 Jan 2018 |url=https://www.hlavnespravy.sk/predseda-kbs-k-pojmu-manzelsky-partner-sudny-dvor-eu-nemoze-zmenit-zmyslanie-spolocnosti/1277972 |quote=V homosexuálnych zväzkoch predovšetkým úplne chýbajú biologické a antropologické prvky manželstva a rodiny, na základe ktorých by bolo možné rozumne odôvodniť právne uznanie týchto zväzkov |accessdate=19 Jan 2018 |language=Slovak}}</ref> | + | The actual thought experiment aiming to resolve this question consists in imagining a ''group of people'', a ''pattern'' subject of research, that would consider as ''normal'' and ''normative'' solely the [[homosexual]] behavior. If such norm would be applied onto all members of the ''tested group'', so that all of them would be ''"normalized"'' accordingly, the society that would adopt such twisted normative approach would simply ''die out'' or depend on ''unnatural methods'' of [[reproduction]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SODOM (documentary) |author=Arkady Mamontov |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWLsblbFNU&feature=youtu.be&t=1092|pages=18min:14sec |quote=The Fertility Institute in L.A., this is the first clinic that offered the surrogacy to sodmites. |accessdate=14 Feb 2016}}</ref> The result of this [[experiment]] is predictable with ''absolute'' degree of certainty beyond any doubt. Same-sex relations are ''essentially'' sterile, intrinsically unfit for generation, while compatible opposite-sex relations are intrinsically generative and only ''accidentally'' infertile. There is nothing a same-sex couple could do at any time or in any way that would render their relations fertile. The opposite is true of the vast majority of compatible opposite-sex couples, who would actively have to do something to render their relations infertile.<ref name="Reilly2014">{{cite book |title=Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything |author=Robert R. Reilly |publisher=Ignatius Press |place=San Francisco |pages=95, 100, 128 |isbn=978-1-58617-833-8 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-JTobNH80}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Privations such as infertility, blindness, a missing arm. leg. etc. are accidental properties, not substantial. Accidental properties, such as privations, do not change the formal aspect of the subject. Just because a man is blind does not change the fact that he is a man, nor does it change the fact that the primary intelligible end of the eye is color and light. ... When a part fails to function properly we attempt to correct it rather than change our conceptualization of what it is altogether.<ref name="Reilly2014"/><ref name="Sorba2010">{{cite web |title=The Essence of Marriage: Rational-Charitable Marriage versus Hedonistic Prideful-Marriage |author=Ryan Sorba |publisher=Conservative Author, Activist, and TV News Personality |date=30 Sep 2010 |url=http://ryansorba.blogspot.com/2010/09/essence-of-marriage.html |accessdate=14 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} Therefore, the conclusive statement inevitably must be that not only the same-sex relationships do not secure the integrity of the society, but also act in counter-direction, endanger its very existence and disintegrate it. In order to maintain the sustainability of society, they must be left devoid of legal support with respect to any form of marriage, i.e. institution with a special status arranging i.a. the sexual relationships of humans and representing the conceptual framework for the [[family]] unit that is the basic building block of civilized society. Sodomites cannot make a society, nor keep ours going for very long. The legal disadvantages against sodomitical and other partnerships are there for the purpose of shaping behavior in a certain way to the general benefit of society and for discouraging behavior that undermines it.<ref name="Reilly2014"/> According to [[Nazi]] resister [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], state should regard for necessary to apply restrictions in the realms of marriage. These restrictions are not an act of arbitrariness or self-will, but rather outcome of fact that natural boundaries and choices are not sufficient safeguard against various blunders and errors that may cause serious harm to society and state. Thus, in order to maintain the [[Natural order]], it is inevitable to restrict and regulate the choices of citizens by positive state law.<ref name="Bonhoeffer:Ethik">{{cite book |title=Etika (Ethics, in the German original 'Ethik') |author=Dietrich Bonhoeffer |publisher=Kalich |place=Prague |year= 2007 |chapter=Přirozené (Natural) |pages=176–7 |language=Czech}}</ref> Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family, on the basis of which it would be possible to reasonably justify the legal recognition of such unions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Predseda KBS k pojmu “manželský partner”: Súdny dvor EÚ nemôže zmeniť zmýšľanie spoločnosti (The president of Episcopal Conference of Slovakia on the term "married partner": The Court of Justice of the European Union cannot change the mindset of society) |author=Stanislav Zvolenský |publisher=HS |date=16 Jan 2018 |url=https://www.hlavnespravy.sk/predseda-kbs-k-pojmu-manzelsky-partner-sudny-dvor-eu-nemoze-zmenit-zmyslanie-spolocnosti/1277972 |quote=V homosexuálnych zväzkoch predovšetkým úplne chýbajú biologické a antropologické prvky manželstva a rodiny, na základe ktorých by bolo možné rozumne odôvodniť právne uznanie týchto zväzkov |accessdate=19 Jan 2018 |language=Slovak}}</ref> |