[Amelia]

The primary goal of gay marriage activists is to break down traditional standards for sexuality....Gay marriage is not about hospital visitation rights. It is about cultural approval of their sexual practices.

No, it's not. It's about money.

It's about spousal benefits for insurance, retirement, social security, and other entitlement/benefit programs.

Government and society grant certain benefits to married couples because, as stated earlier, most cultures and religions have recognized marriage to be the best method of perpetuating the society. (Even though not all marriages result in children, odds are that many or most will.)

Homosexuality by definition does not perpetuate the society, which is one reason most religions and societies have prohibitions against it. Homosexuals want the benefits married couples get, but they don't benefit society in return.

Actually, I don't believe they would even be able to demand marriage or civil unions if not for the current cultural decline, and the fact that "the joining of one man and one woman and the binding force of the nuclear family" is much weaker than it used to be.

Many couples now choose not to have children. Where I teach, very few of the children live with both parents, and some don't even have fathers listed on their birth certificates. We can't really claim that marriage perpetuates the society, because so many of those who are perpetuating the society aren't remaining married.

[Peach]

Gay marriage is also about recruitment, as another Freeper reminded me.

The radicals make their agenda very clear.

[Amelia]

Here is an article which makes my arguments better than I did.

[gogipper]

Where I teach, very few of the children live with both parents, and some don't even have fathers listed on their birth certificates.


And is this a good thing??? If you are a teacher and you see this devastation, don't you see how we should roll it back? Encourage men to be responsible and marry women who they have children with, encourage women to stay with their husbands. Don't just say because it has been damaged thus far by society, lets pull the plug and end it.