Well, that's your opinion. Years from now, if the gay marriage issue can be separated out from all the other causal and correlative factors affecting the direction of traditional marriages, divorces, and children, perhaps it can be substantiated that harm is done.
It's teens and younger people who are likely to be suffer the effects.
Well, they're certainly more prone to follow the trends, but again I think the thesis that they would choose not to marry or not to have children because of gay marriages seems to me quite a stretch. Massachusetts would be the key to look at. While their marriage rates were quite low in the Country, their divorce rate was the lowest in the Nation in 2002. For the most liberal state in the Nation, that's not a trivial statistic.
No, but the sanctioning of gay "marriage" means that creating and nurturing children is no longer of any special relevance to marriage.
I guess that's the link I'm drawing a complete blank on. Here in this country, many people marry with only a passing intention to have a family. Most make that decision well into the marriage. They marry because they love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives with each other. Sex is no less important and enjoyable to a heterosexual couple than to a homosexual couple.
The only difference between being married and not married is that the former requires a few more obligations, and who needs that in a "me first" society? That's the attitude conveyed to kids by gay "marriage".
I think that's an attitude conveyed to kids by the fact that marriage rates are declining everywhere, including the US. There is little if any linkage of that to the upstart homosexual marriage crowd. Yes it's a serious issue, but if you are to lay the blame on a target that in reality may not have any relationship, aren't you doing an injustice to the efforts to curb the problem?
Gay "marriage" is just one more blow to the family, on top of the many others the left has delivered over the past few decades. None of the blows by themselves are fatal, but they add up, and now with gay "marriage" we may be reaching the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Outta here for the night!