What Really Puts The Future of Humanity At Risk

So, apparently Pope Benedict says that gay marriage will ruin humanity. I'll let you digest that thought for a moment.

Somehow two people who want to be exclusive, loyal, and tell the world that they actually love each other enough to want to spend their lives together are harming humanity's future.

On The View this morning Elisabeth Hasselbeck said that gay marriage doesn't threaten her marriage, but that divorce does. I agree with her. Here are the things that I believe are ruining marriages and thus the future of humanity (in no particular order):

1. Technology

We all have some form of technology that we use on a daily basis. There are 100's of gadgets designed to keep us connected and in the loop at every waking moment. We are becoming addicted to checking for updates and afraid we will miss something. Some people even bring their phones to bed with them. This cannot be good for marriages/relationships. While we may be more social with strangers, we are actually less social with people in front of our faces.

2. Porn

Porn may arguably be the most accessible thing on the Internet, providing men (and women I guess) with on-demand movies featuring anything (and I do mean anything) your heart desires. Unfortunately it can leave married women (or any woman) feeling less than perfect and not good enough which does put a strain on marriages. It conditions men to believe that it's ok to look at other naked women having sex because they don't touch. However with this conditioning the chances of in real life cheating rises if the opportunity were to present itself.

3. Strippers/Prostitutes

Similar to, but much worse than the porn, strippers and prostitutes bring sex closer to home and provide temptation to cheat. These women make cheating that much more accessible which is far more threatening to humanity's future than gay marriage.

4. Photoshop

Yes, photoshop is a threat because it is used to create outrageous images of women and how they should look which are unattainable. This puts a lot of pressure on women to try to look like the images they see all around them. Since they will never look like the photoshopped images, self esteem is lowered and a negative cycle begins that will trickle into the marriage.

5. Desire for everything to be fast and easy

I blame the "instantness" of the Internet for this one. We want everything and we want it now. We want to "click" and be done with it. We want easy quick food, easier ways to do housework, easier ways to make money, etc. No one wants to put in time and effort and actually earn achievements in their lives anymore, and this is evident in the effort we put into our relationships as well. Many people want to just quit when a problem arises. Somewhere a long the line we started to believe that love shouldn't take work. This is why the divorce rate is so high.

6. Credit/Debt

In relation to the point above: we want everything now even if we cannot afford it. Thanks to credit cards, lines of credit and loans of every kind we can now have everything in exchange for a lifetime of debt. As we get buried in debt and financial problems occur, ( you guessed it) marriages suffer.

So before the Pope tries to blame gay marriage for ruining the future of humanity, perhaps he should look at all the things we are accepting in our world that are actually directly related to the future of what marriage and family will be moving forward.

What do you think puts the future of humanity in jeopardy?