On top of that, gay couples would take benefits that are funded by my tax money which would normally be reserved for traditional couples.
Tax money also goes to help disabled people eat and live, unwed/married mothers who need help feeding their children (at least in my state), and other such needed funds. It's not like once gay marriage is legalized that all funding from the government is going to help them.
David Blankenhorn argues that raising children in a same-sex marriage violates the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child that guarantees children the right to know and to be cared for by the two parents who brought them into this world.[67]
o_O That also means that adoption violates that U.N. Convention thing. If the biological parents are dead or incapable of caring for the child, it's "wrong" for them to be adopted by a couple that'll love the child(ren)?
And I agree with Erik. I mean, not all families are traditional these days, with both biological parents raising the children. Are those families also "wrong" because they "psychologically damage" the children in them?
This is also an argument that is commonly used against heterosexual sex without the intention of bearing a child.
This might not mean that you wanted to bring this up, but if a problem of homosexual sex is the fact that it does not allow one of the couple to bear a child, then what about the heterosexual couples that are physically unable, or choose not, to have children?
It can lead to depression, feelings of low self-worth or not belonging, and the desire to get cosmetic surgeries such as sex changes, which aside from being unnecessary always carry the risk of infection, disease, and all of the other complications normally associated with surgery.
Audy covered most of this quote, and said what I was probably going to say against it, but I have more to say that he didn't.
The reason why homosexuals feel that they "don't belong" is because of the attitude people take toward them. People ostracize them. Heck, people ostracize anyone who doesn't fit in their definition of "normal". When someone is shunned from the group for being gay, of course they're going to be depressed. They lost their group. They get insulted. They feel worthless. It's not because of the actual homosexuality. It's because people are rude to those who are different. (Not that everyone is.)
what makes you think that God decides peoples' sexual orientations
God is said to have made "man" in His image. Each one of "us" is made in the image of God. When you hurt one human, you are actually hurting God, because God made every one of His children in His image. If you believe that we are all children of God, then homosexuals are made by God in His image, and when you hurt a homosexual in anyway, you are hurting one of God's children, and in a sense, God Himself. (At least, that's what I can dredge out of my memory at five in the morning from many years ago.)
My state, Connecticut, has legalized gay marriage. (However long it's going to last, I don't know. I'm happy we're currently like this.) But I would vote "no" on Prop 8 for a variety of reasons.
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Maybe someday we'll coin a good phrase for it and call it a day. After all, this is America. We're very well known to squabble over issues like this and then come to slowly accept them.
Marriage is currently defined, according to my dorky Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as "the state of being united to another person as a usually contractual relationship according to law or custom". Definitions change with the times, people. Many have done so before, and will continue to do so. The culture (custom) also changes.
