[Amelia]

I'm not a social liberal, I didn't say gay marriage was right, and I don't believe it is.

I just don't think it will damage real marriages.

[aimhigh]

I just don't think it will damage real marriages.

Give college degrees to dunces, and college degrees lose their meaning. It's the same thing. And where do you draw the line. If you can't draw a line, then you are a social liberal.

[sruleoflaw]

But what does gay marriage do to real children???

[gogipper]

You are thinking too concretely. Its not just 'real marriages', most present-day marriages won't be affected. It is the future that is impacted. People approaching their marrying years will not see marriage as at all important. There will be a further explosion of unmarried mothers. Men won't even consider marriage because they are wired for multiple partners and there will be no societal respect or approval to limit themselves.

Have you ever read of the dramatic increase in spousal and child abuse in non-marital households? Marriage commitment avoids this. I love my kids and I think all kids deserve a stable marriage-based household.



I am also including a quote from American Standard about what HAS REALLY HAPPENED IN SCANDINAVIA because they have already gone down this road!

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AMERICANS take it for granted that, despite its recent troubles, marriage will always exist. This is a mistake. Marriage is disappearing in Scandinavia, and the forces undermining it there are active throughout the West. Perhaps the most disturbing sign for the future is the collapse of the Scandinavian tendency to marry after the second child. At the start of the nineties, 60 percent of unmarried Norwegian parents who lived together had only one child. By 2001, 56 percent of unmarried, cohabiting parents in Norway had two or more children. This suggests that someday, Scandinavian parents might simply stop getting married altogether, no matter how many children they have.