Redefining Marriage Yet Again … This Time With Robosexuals

Years ago, I cautioned where this would go … upon giving license to same-sex ‘marriages.’  Now, the slippery slope has slid us to robots.  That’s right.  You’re reading it correctly.

Question: Do people have the right to marry the one they love, even if the one they love is a robot?  If not, why not?  After all, in the words of Lilly from France, who has fallen in love with her robot, “We don’t hurt anybody, we are just happy.”

Isn’t that what matters in the end, that people are happy?  That certainly is the argument of those who deny truth and have embraced relativism.

Lilly calls herself a “proud robosexual,” and she fully plans on marrying her robot, whom she named InMoovator.  As explained in the Daily Mail, “Lilly is reportedly engaged to the robot and says they will marry when human-robot marriage is legalized in France.”

As Dr. Michael Brown (host of the Line of Fire radio program) states, “But why should this surprise us?  People have not only married their same-sex spouses (which has the merit of joining together fellow-humans, albeit completely opposite to the God-ordained male-female pattern), but they have married animals and inanimate objects and, with increasing frequency, married themselves.”

Recently, Good Housekeeping ran the story, “WHY I MARRIED MYSELF.  Self-marriage is a small but growing movement around the world.”  The article speaks at length about “solo weddings” and references people like Dominique, who “is a self-marriage counselor and minister, offering services including consulting sessions and private ceremonies through her website, Self-Marriage Ceremonies, which she runs from her home in northern California.”  The article also includes self-marriage vows like these: “I will never leave myself.”  “I promise to ask for help when I’m suffering.”  “I promise to look in the mirror every day and be grateful.”  “I promise to give you the incredible life that you long for.”

If, then, you can “marry” yourself – since you’re not hurting anyone, which has been one of the loudest arguments used by advocates of same-sex ‘marriage’ – why can’t you marry a robot?  At least the robot can provide both companionship and unflinching loyalty, also helping to lighten your daily load by performing some menial chores.  And now, in ever increasing measure, robots can provide sex as well.

The other week, the BBC ran a story in its Technology section called “Sex Robots: Experts debate the rise of the love droids.”  The article begins with these words: “Would you have sex with a robot?  Would you marry one?  Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union?  These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots Conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths University in London after the government in Malaysia - the original location - banned it.”  The conference ended with a speech by Dr. David Levy, who said, “We have companion robots and a partner robot is the logical continuation of the trend.  In the next 10 years it is perfectly achievable in software to create a robot companion that is everything that people might want in a spouse - patient, kind, loving, trusting, respectful and uncomplaining,” he said.  He went on to say, “[However] some enjoy the friction of a relationship and may want to marry an aggressive robot, some people would find that exciting.”

If you think this is ridiculous, you’d better keep your thoughts to yourself … less you be labelled a robophobic.  After all, robot marriage harms no one, robot marriage makes people happy, robot marriage fills the void of loneness, and perhaps robot marriage will even help bring sexual release to people who might otherwise show their aggression in socially harmful ways.

All this is to say: Once you redefine marriage you render it meaningless.  The fact is that once you move marriage away from its divinely intended – one man-one woman union for life – you open the door to virtually anything … including robot marriage.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel