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Originally Posted by shinerbock
My views are religious based yes, but there are other motives as well. Evidence has shown that a man and woman provide the best family environment. Before you point out exceptions, there are exceptions, but that doesn't overcome the fact that in the majority of situations, children with a mother and father present do best.
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Unless you're also arguing for an amendment to eliminate divorce, I must disagree with this point.
Also, I'd like a citation if possible - I'm unaware of comprehensive studies comparing 2-parent households 'apples to apples' with regard to gay/straight parenting viability.
Besides this, gay people can adopt on their own, and that's not illegal. Marriage and children are not intertwined . . .
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
The majority of people who marry are fertile and within ages which could bear children. Thus, they are likely to eventually produce children, and if the family remains intact, those children have a much better chance at educational success, mental health, etc. If gay marriage is permitted in every state, then the question will become why would they not be allowed to raise and adopt children? I think that issue has the potential of becoming more hostile and even more devisive than the one at hand.
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. . . which leads to this. Denying someone adoption based on their sexuality is a separate issue, one that I doubt you'll find much support for outside extreme religious groups, and this is NOT a contingent or conflated issue to gay marriage.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
The argument that there is no genetic benefit to being gay isn't quite true. There seems to be evidence supporting the idea that the gay uncle (so to speak) helped raise the children, so that more people could hunt and gather. Same thing for grandparents. We live much longer, relatively speaking, than other mammals. Long past our reproductive age.
This is all anthropological theory of course, but it isn't entirely baseless.
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To add to this post, there are numerous examples of homosexuality within other mammal species. This is not a human-only phenomenon; thus, within nature, it must not be THAT detrimental (you know, survival of the fittest and all that). It's a baseless argument.