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Same-Sex Marriage - A Threat To Whom?
12-23-04
| Ernie1241
Posted on 12/23/2004 7:40:45 AM PST by Ernie.cal
I have read many messages which object to same-sex marriage but I am still waiting to learn what specific adverse consequences opponents of gay marriage anticipate to result from its legalization.
In other words, suppose same-sex marriage becomes law during 2005. By 2010 or 2015 what specific indisputable adverse consequences to society do opponents predict to occur?
With respect to those critics of same-sex marriage who refer to "God's law" and "procreation" --- do they believe that heterosexual couples who cannot have children, or who do not wish to have children, should also NOT be allowed to marry?
The essence of a free society is choice---including the option of choosing private behavior that does not cause harm to another person. The alternative is coercion, i.e. using the coercive (and punitive) power of government through laws, bureaucrats, and police to dictate what choices are permissible.
Do opponents of same-sex marriage propose that our society should begin identifying areas where choices involving human intimacy should be regulated by government entities and thus dilute our commitment to the values inherent in a free society?
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To: Ernie.cal
One view: Governments should *not* have the right to perform marriages. They should be only allowed to create civil unions. The concept of marriage is steeped in tradition and even allowing government entities to perform them weakens our traditions. Only a religious entity should be allowed to deem a civil union a marriage. To those that might say, "What about atheists"? I say, how can one participate in a tradition created by religion if one is an atheist without being a hypocrit?
701
posted on
01/15/2005 4:35:50 AM PST
by
I_dmc
To: I_dmc
The poster has joined with the "dearly departed" now.
(Means "banned or suspended" from FR).
702
posted on
01/15/2005 8:10:15 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: MeekOneGOP
Why thank you! I've never used that particular FR search function.
703
posted on
01/15/2005 8:39:10 AM PST
by
scripter
(Tens of thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
To: scripter
704
posted on
01/15/2005 10:32:00 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: scripter; little jeremiah; EdReform
The studies that ernie listed, which dealt with homosexual fathers, etc, are termed "Snowball studies."
Since those studies recruited from gay publications, etc, they are "snowball studies" and are highly inaccurate.
The most accurate studies are Registry studies. A Registry study dealing homosexual fathers raising children, for instance, would recruit fathers and then subsequently ask for their sexual orientation. The fathers would have no idea about what they were being recruited for, and thus the study would be highly accurate.
The studies Ernie listed one could term junk science.
To: texan75010
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Makes total sense. Kind of like Kinsey - he came up with the 10% figure after interviewing prisoners, prostitutes, drug addicts and the like. At least I think he included drug addicts.
Real cross section of society. Not.
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