Posted on 11/04/2009 10:53:29 AM PST by DesertRenegade
Andrew Sullivan: The truth about civil marriage - why it is the essential criterion for gay equality - is that it alone explodes this core marginalization and invisibility of gay people. It alone can reach those gay kids who need to know they have a future as a dignified human being with a family. It alone tells society that gay people are equal in their loves and in their hearts and in their families - not just useful in a society with a need for talented or able individuals whose private lives remain perforce sequestered from view.
This is why it remains the prize. And why our eyes must remain fixed upon it. In my view, the desperate nature of the current tactics against us, the blatant use of fear around children (which both worries parents and also stigmatizes gay people in one, deft swoop) are signs that what we are demanding truly, truly matters.
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A child has a right to a mother and father. To suggest that a gay couple has the right to a family as this author states is to deny a child a mother or father. If you like what fatherlessness in America has wrought, Detroit would be great. One can get a house there for $500.
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If gay “marriage” is legalized, will poly marriages be far behind (sorry) or between consenting children, etc, etc.
Western Society has been in decline for some time but it feels like we have entered a period of accelerating entropy - the entirety of society reduced to a level unimaginable even just 20 years ago.
What kind of cruel bastard would want to mislead them this way? The very suggestion is just heartless.
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“A child has a right to a mother and father.”
Since when?
The only way we can show misguided, sick children who are convinced they’re homosexual is by redefining an institution that has served as social bedrock for thousands of years?
Apparently logic doesn’t rate high in Andy’s forensic hierarchy.
When gays are able to procreate then we might have a need to have a conversation about the equality of homosexual and heterosexual lifestyles. Until then, the two are not equal and cannot be.
“How do you feel about a gay couple of men adopting a young boy? What do you think the boy will be exposed to? Any thoughts?”
One name - JESSE DIRKHISING
Then get them to have their first sexual experience with a member of their own sex and you've probably created a new gay playmate.
Sick.
And now it’s illegal to say the truth about all this.
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They are mental IMO.
Doesn’t it make one want to put one’s hand on one’s hip, lean to one side and say “OH - GET OVER IT!”?
What amazes the hell out of me with this gay movement/marriage thing is they act like it’s the end of the world or something.
Is that all they do, sit around and cry about not getting special rights ? With all that’s going on in the world THAT’S their main concern ?
That alone tells me it’s an agenda. Nothing more.
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i think gays are allowed to adopt in some states already.
Hardly.
Having both a mother and a father is a blessing, not a right.
Here in Massachusetts, we have already been-there-done-that with regard to the "legalization" of gay marriage (by judicial fiat and not by referendum) being used by radical gay activists as a justification for indoctrinating our kids in the public schools....as early as kindergarten!!!
We,in Massachusetts, may have lost the "gay marriage" battle for now, but we are not going to allow that to discourage us from continuing to fight the good fight with a view to winning the "gay marriage" war.
We the people of Massachusetts were denied our right to vote on the "gay marriage" issue. We will not stop doing everything we can to change that.
When the gay activists in California started their now-familiar whining embodied in their drama queen lament "How is legalizing gay marriage hurting anyone?" we did our best to flood California with the truth about how gay activists started indoctrinating our children in the public schools IMMEDIATELY after gay marriage became legal here in the state of Massachusetts.
Actually, it was a lesbian California teacher, among others, who made our case best for us when she set up a "field trip" to city hall so that her grade school students could attend her same sex wedding!
At the end of the day, when radical gay activists call us "homophobes," we should feel complemented, since "homophobia" is simply the natural revulsion that unnatural acts invite in most people
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