Same sex marriages, good or bad

[atlantabiolab]

I believe people have already posted studies refuting the assertion made about abnormal environments. Not to mention the single parent environments! Which are products of FAILED traditional marriages. Those have become the norm as have blended families.

But your example can argue against you. The present state of failed marriages and high rates of broken families correlates with greater problems in youth. Feminist advocates argued earlier that men were not necessary for families, that women could be both provider and nurturer. Evidence is not supporting the idea that non-traditional families are equivalent to traditional mother/father families.

It is too early to tell what the effects are on children in homosexual families. There are not enough cases to study and make a sound judgement; you can't make a reasoned conclusion when the trend is just beginning.

 

[Raina]

My thought is "to each their own". Mostly I think it's not fair that a gay couple wouldn't have the same default-legal rights in terms of property etc that a married hetero couple gets-- same for benefits.

 

[®ª†]

If it makes two people happy to be married, regardless of their sex, then so be it ... let them marry. I just feel sorry for the child(ren) who will have to deal with the humiliation growing up with two gay parents.

 

[Spartacus]

whats to keep a couple of straights guys form "marrying" for awhile to enjoy the economic benefits?...say they are roommates for a couple of years and have figured if they marry one guy can carry the health insurance while the other guy takes care of the cable bill..they could get tax breaks....a couple of guys in med school or something...dudes doing a 2 year gig in alaska

 

[Longhorn85]

I just feel sorry for the child(ren) who will have to deal with the humiliation growing up with two gay parents.

Yup. Or are led into a gay lifestyle by example.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Yup. Or are led into a gay lifestyle by example.

I'm more concerned with the children that will have to grow up with bigoted parents, who's sole vision of humanity is so limited as to exclude the reality of gay people.

 

[Longhorn85]

I'm more concerned with the children that will have to grow up with bigoted parents, who's sole vision of humanity is so limited as to exclude the reality of gay people.

That reality is not excluded, but it is not falsely presented as the norm either.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

That reality is not excluded, but it is not falsely presented as the norm either.

I'm happy that when the norm was slavery, that there were people who still stood up against the injustice of it.

 

[Longhorn85]

I'm happy that when the norm was slavery, that there were people who still stood up against the injustice of it.

You continue to present that sensational argument, but it doesn't fly. How can you compare someone being involuntarily taken away from his/her family and forced into degrading labor with someone who chooses to have deviant sex, and then tells the world about it expecting benefits?

You bring dishonor on the Civil Rights movement when you make that self-serving comparison.

 

[Robert Jan]

I say we ban marriage all together