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Contents:
- THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
- 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
- THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- FIRST-PERSON: 10 REASONS TO OPPOSE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’
- ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC REASONS TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE?
- GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
Bt arguments agast same-sex "marriage." Learn them and w every bate. See why gay marriage is wrong. * reasons why people are against gay marriage *
In the name of the “fay, ” same-sex “marriage” serv to validate not only such unns but the whole homosexual liftyle all s bisexual and transgenr variants. If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the prent step sexual “eedom, ” what logil arguments n be ed to stop the next steps of ct, pedophilia, btialy, and other forms of unnatural behavr?
31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
* reasons why people are against gay marriage *
The railroadg of same-sex “marriage” on the Amerin people mak creasgly clear what homosexual activist Pl Varnell wrote the Chigo Free Prs:"The gay movement, whether we acknowledge or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberatn movement, but a moral revolutn aimed at changg people's view of homosexualy.
THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * reasons why people are against gay marriage *
In tellectually opposg dividuals or anizatns promotg the homosexual agenda, our only tent is the fense of tradnal marriage, the fay, and the prec remnants of Christian civilizatn.
Homosexual upl g vro fertilizatn (IVF) or surrogate mothers liberately create a class of children who will live apart om their mother or father.
A number of leadg profsnal associatns have asserted that there are "no differenc" between children raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals. 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.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
This article claims that three mon arguments agast gay marriage - the fnal, procreatn, and slippery-slope arguments - are que bad, the worst of the lot. The fnal argument asserts that marriage jt is the unn of one man and one woman, and that the fn alone is a sufficient fense agast claims for gay marriage. The procreatn argument claims that marriage's central public purpose is to enurage procreatn, and so the excln of same-sex upl is jtified. The slippery-slope argument claims that the acceptance of same-sex marriage logilly entails the acceptance of other public policy chang - notably the acceptance of polygamy - that would themselv be bad, pennt of whether gay marriage is bad. While each argument has some appeal, and each has adherents both si and outsi the legal amy, each is badly flawed as a matter of logic, experience, polics, or some batn of the three. The article suggts that the tert of focg on the most important ncerns about gay marriage, mentators should move on to other arguments agast that seem stronger and th better tt the affirmative se for gay marriage. * reasons why people are against gay marriage *
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. 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.
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.
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.
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
In today’s heightened culture war, the ffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowg. * reasons why people are against gay marriage *
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 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. He is suatg, of urse, that homosexual relatnships are not plementary by nature bee they nnot produce offsprg, and therefore they are unnatural and unservg of the word “marriage”.
The studi ced by actively homophobic anisatns like the Coaln for Marriage were fund by anti-gay anisatns, or have basic methodology flaws – for example, they would pare married straight upl wh un-wed gay upl, or they would take a person who may have had a sgle cur experience wh the same sex and fe them as exclively homosexual.
FIRST-PERSON: 10 REASONS TO OPPOSE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’
Arguments based on “tradnal fay” will always be sultg, not jt to the healthy, well-adjted children of gay upl, but to the children raised by sgle parents, step-parents, grandparents, godparents, foster parents, and siblgs. A step the right directn, perhaps, but they are a separate form of regnn that reaffirmed society’s wish to keep homosexuals at arm’s length should we somehow “dimish” te marriage. Type B: The Arguments That Don’t Even Bother to Hi Their Homophobia While we mt look closely to spot the homophobia herent some arguments agast gay marriage, wh others the prejudice is barely disguised at all.
” Ignorg the fact not everyone is gay, and also ignorg the fact gay people n and do have children through donors and surrogat, I actually que enjoyed the apolyptic imag this argument njured. Concln In an attempt to portray his mpaign to “prerve tradnal marriage” as reasoned and unprejudiced, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has argued that supporters of gay marriage shouldn’t rort to name-llg and accatns of bigotry.
Given centuri of relig persecutn of gay people is entirely jtified to ll Lord Carey, the Coaln for Marriage, Christian Concern, and all other proactive opponents of gay marriage “bigots” and their arguments homophobic. Sometim the bate on gay marriage has been polarised, stg those who supported the measure as the right-thkg and those who opposed as irratnal and guilty of tac homophobia. The relig scepticThere are relig people who oppose gay marriage primarily out of a fear that one day equaly laws will force a church, mosque or temple to host a ceremony.
ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC REASONS TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE?
As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian. It's jt a waste of time the heterosexual world, and the homosexual world I fd personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this stutn that is so clearly a disaster.
"Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013. A new poll om the Pew Fom on Relign & Public Life found, not surprisgly, that opposn to gay marriage and homosexualy is hight among the most relig.
GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
Poignantly, homosexualy would seem to be the one topic that un the lears of the world’s fahs—an issue over which Frankl Graham and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed uld break bread. The most fashnable argument agast is that unrm the stutn of marriage (and therefore fay and therefore society), but I n’t help but thk this is a poll-tted ia that don’t really get at the te feelgs of the advot; the Pew poll, few people opposg the notn of gay marriage offered that up as the ma reason.
Though there are differenc the views of different fahs, nservative Prottants, the Catholic Church, Mormons, tradnal Jews, and Mlims share two fundamental antigay arguments. Christian Bible scholar Ben Whergton explas the views of the apostle Pl this way: “For Pl, not unlike other early Jewish wrers, homosexual behavr is perhaps the cleart example of how floutg sexual distctns is ultimately a rejectn of the Creator, who ma such distctns. But Whergton, a nservative scholar, go on to pot out that all sorts of ss volve the implic rejectn of God or His mandments and that homosexualy is on par wh vetons, malice, envy, murr, slanr, solence, rebelln agast parents, thlsns, ce, pri, and the like—not one sted to stroy society.