In regards to heterosexual couples - I think the whole idea of couple beings married but not in families is ridiculous. Then why marry? What is the point? You can stay together without a piece of paper. Heck you can have a ceremony and make vows towards each other. Why marry? The disintegration of the family is something that has occured gradually and I believe firmly that it should be prevented.
In regards to Gays adopting children. Yes I agree that a child is much better off with people that care for it than being in a lonely home. What idiot doesn't? That question is very much entrapment. However say there is a straight couple and a gay couple, then who gets the adopted child? "Equal rights" aren't about the lesser of two evils (orphanage vs. gay parents), but about the better of two goods.
And in that case, I hold my own view and so do many others. It is a view that is being attacked alongside an attack on the family structure.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by pirepresent
Alright, I'm not sure, but I think I'm with you... so marriage is, at its roots, about a family, right? I can agree with that, in principle.
So should heterosexual couples who don't want to have children not be allowed to marry? My godparents have been married for 27 years, but they decided early that they didn't want to have children, and so my godmother had her tubes tied.
However, they are very much in love, and very much a family... they breed shelties. It's kind of cute. That's just an example, there are lots of married couples out there who aren't families, in the traditional sense of the word, but they're still in love, right?
Should they not be allowed to marry because they don't want to produce offspring? And what about homosexual couples who want to adopt? If they are allowed to adopt a child, can't they be considered a family then?
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