Wow - a rational post against gay marriage. Its nice to see someone present Ocean's POV without slipping into anti-gay rhetoric.
ocean976124 said:
Sociologically speaking the best place for children to be raised is within a commited family. Statistically children of single parents or divorced parents tend to have more problems regarding the law, school, and behavior. here's always exceptions on both sides, but the statistics are very clear.
The government gives certain benefits to heterosexual couples to encourage and help couples raise children in the best possible environment.
Ah, but being gay does not preclude being a parent, or providing a committed family environment. If anything, gay marriage would increase the ability of gays and lesbians to offer such households. If anything, you've made an argument in favour of gay marriage, not against it.
Now, I know, you're going to ask, "Then why can elderly or infertile people get married?"
No, but I would ask why people can re-marry at all. Statistically, people entering their second marriages are significantly less likely to have children. This is not some tiny portion of the population.
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Well, we've got to draw an easy definable line somewhere and rather than spend extra money and time proving or disproving things, its easiest and more effective to draw the line at heterosexual coupling.[/B]
Is it? Drawing the line at heterosexual coupling made a lot of sense when a man was solely responsible for providing for his "wife and kids". The entrance of women into the workforce has changed that dynamic forever.
Why, for example, does the tax system punish families with one-wage earner when almost every study indicates that having a stay-at-home parent is better for the kids?
I don't know about you, but I don't think children should be included as part of some grand scale social experiment.
Right or wrong, kids have always been (and will always be) part of our grand scale social experiments. If that weren't the case, then nothing would ever change in society (positively or negatively).