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If the government should ban gay marriage because it is "good for society," what's to stop it from banning cigarettes, alcohol, trans fats, salt, and sugary drinks like all nanny state liberals want to do? Freedom is freedom. Don't agree with gay marriage? Don't get one.
My buddy, Glenn Beck, has made a great contribution to the TEA party movement and to a renewal of popular interest in our Founding Fathers and their ideals. For all that he deserves praise.
But, I believe, he is making a serious error in abandoning the civil right of marriage. The Republican Party was founded in opposition to two historic wrongs. The party’s first platform in 1856 denounced “slavery and polygamy—the twin relics of barbarism.” Slavery was finally put down with a terrible toll—630,000 Americans dead in the Civil War. The new movie, Lincoln, tells the dramatic story of the...
Every really messed-up kid I ever met came out of a heterosexual family. Good parenting is good parenting regardless of the gender of the parent. The same goes for bad parenting.
We need to be sure parents have the tools they need to do that job (primarily education and loving parental models from whom to learn) and not worry so much about the parents' sexual orientation.
And, yes, I'm a parent. And, no, I'm not gay.
Why don't you take that confused observation to Jovan Belcher's baby girl in a few years when she's old enough to understand what happened with her heterosexual parents.
Parenting is not necessarily about reproduction. I'm a single parent, and my son is not my biological child.
So can straights. Your point is?
Got it.
And, as I think you're saying, if gay parents are harmed by being at a legal disadvantage because of inability to legally marry (in matters, say, of health insurance, inheritance, powers of attorney, etc.), those disabilities visit themselves upon their kids as well. Allowing gay marriage helps insure the rights of their children. I'm hard-pressed to see how that can harm society.