Raskolnikov34 said:
1: The unhealthiness of gay marriages: http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02: This gives info on the issue. To sum it up: gays do worse than heterosexual marriages in the following catagories:
-relationship duration
-monogamy vs. promiscuity
-relationship commitment
-number of children being raised
-health risks
-rates of intimate partner violence
2: The children: Statistics for this are conflicting, but I will say that, yes, you can find role models elsewhere, but children do need a mother and father to be raised properly (I'll try to get more info on this later).
3: Unnatural: It clearly goes against basic human nature on a Biological and psychological level. Men are meant to be attracted to women in order to propagate the species. Anything that goes against human nature is obviously wrong.
4: Immoral and Hedonistic: The infertile having sex is hedonistic? No, if there're married its not, there's nothing wrong per say with pleasure. Its when a person ignores basic ethics and morality in order to achieve pleasure, thus making pleasure their ultimate goal, that it becomes hedonism. And according to my morality? There's one, objective morality, personal opinions aside. But I don't want to argue about relativism, if that's what you're putting forward, when that's kind of off topic...maybe a different time.
1. "The Family Research Council (FRC) is a Christian right group and lobbying organization"
There throws all of your evidence away, the source is completely biased on the subject. I mean, I spent 10 minutes on that site, and I saw nothing except bigotry, slander, and lies.
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2. We agree, therefore there should be nothing wrong with having 2 gay parents.
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3. un·nat·u·ral
?adjective
1.
contrary to the laws or course of nature.
I don't think you know what that word means. By this definition, and the proof of homosexual behavior IN animals, which, in turn, IS nature, calling it unnatural is completely wrong.
"It clearly goes against basic human nature"
And what the fuck is 'basic human nature' exactly? The want to just bash someone over the head with a rock, take their female, and breed? Human nature is a completely daft argument, as just because something isn't the norm, doesn't mean it should be. You are going against the norm right now, everyone is. It's called being an individual. We are not a hive mind, we are individual minds.
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3.
"there's nothing wrong per say with pleasure. Its when a person ignores basic ethics and morality in order to achieve pleasure, thus making pleasure their ultimate goal, that it becomes hedonism."
he·don·ism/ˈhēdnˌizəm/Noun
1. The pursuit of pleasure.
2. The ethical theory that pleasure is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
-United States Declaration of Independence
Now, onto these "basic ethics." How exactly does having sex violate any ethical boundaries whatsoever.
"Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality - that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice, etc."
Good and evil, right and wrong, justice, virtue, and on and on and on. Yes they all sound very nice, now I have trouble understanding how having sex with anyone can be "evil" or "wrong." Why is it evil? And no, religion is not a valid excuse.
re·li·gion
noun
A particular system of faith and worship
Faith is not facts, it's belief. Facts are something that can be proven, faith is something that someone thinks. "Basic ethics" say that a few things can be evil. Now, how is sex 'evil'? As long as it brings all who are involved happiness, and does not remove the happiness of others, I see nothing evil in it.