31 arguments agast gay marriage (and why they’re all wrong) | New Humanist

Contents:

• 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
• HOW TO W ANY ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS
• WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• THE ONLY ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY IT NEEDS TO END)

31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)

Homosexual upl g vro fertilizatn (IVF) or surrogate mothers liberately create a class of children who will live apart om their mother or father. Although homosexual men are ls likely to have children than lbians, homosexual men are and will be raisg children.

A number of leadg profsnal associatns have asserted that there are "no differenc" between children raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals.

HOW TO W ANY ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Soclogist Steven Nock of the Universy of Virgia, who is agnostic on the issue of same-sex civil marriage, offered this review of the lerature on gay parentg as an expert wns for a Canadian urt nsirg legalizatn of same-sex civil marriage:. Although the evince on child out is sketchy, do suggt that children raised by lbians or homosexual men are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs. In the first edn of his book fense of same-sex marriage, Virtually Normal, homosexual mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote: "There is more likely to be greater unrstandg of the need for extramaral outlets between two men than between a man and a woman.

THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT AGAST GAY RIGHTS

It is plsible to spect that legal regnn of homosexual civil marriage would have siar nsequenc for the stutn of marriage; that is, would further stabilize the norm that adults should sacrifice to get and stay married for the sake of their children.

WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY

Homosexual civil marriage would make even easier than already is for men to ratnalize their abandonment of their children. If the distctive sexual patterns of "mted" gay upl are any ditn (see above), is unlikely that homosexual marriage would domtite men the way that heterosexual marriage do. It is also extremely unlikely that the blogil effects of heterosexual marriage on men would also be found homosexual marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Th, gay activists who argue that same-sex civil marriage will domtite gay men are, all likelihood, clgg to a foolish hope. Gay rights advot and others say that gay and lbian people want to get married for the same reasons that straight people do – they want to be rg, stable relatnships, they want to build a life and even start a fay wh someone else.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Some people favor of gay marriage have argued for a “go-slow” approach, acknowledgg that we’re largely unknown terrory and that a majory of Amerins are not yet fortable wh same-sex marriage.

And if the urts ultimately say, “Marriage mt be allowed between anybody and anybody, ” the gay rights advot are not gog to say, “Well, you’ve gone too far.

As a person who has posned himself as a fenr of Christian valu, why is gay marriage particularly opposed to those valu?

THE ONLY ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY IT NEEDS TO END)

I don’t thk there is an issue that is a tougher issue for people to stand up agast Amerin culture today than this one, both om the standpot of the mastream media and the popular culture nmng you for your – they n e all sorts of words to scribe you – tolerant, bigot, homophobe, hater. Some have jt not been exposed to the right arguments, and so I will monstrate here that each anti-gay marriage argument ultimately serv to opprs or imply the lser stat of the mory of which I am a part. In rallyg agast the troductn of equal marriage, relig mpaigners have equently strsed that their objectns are not driven by homophobia, and have ployed numero arguments to monstrate this.

To the untraed ear the arguments sound like they may have groundg reason, but on closer spectn reveal themselv as homophobic. To imply that cludg same-sex upl wh the fn of marriage will somehow be trimental or even stctive for the stutn is to suggt gay people mt be herently poisono.

” This claratn ignor the legally married gay upl Canada, Spa, Portugal, Argenta, Denmark, Swen, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Netherlands, and South Ai. It also oms om history the married gay upl of ancient Cha and Rome, Mormon polygamy, and the ancient Egyptians who uld marry their sisters.