[pollyannaish]

I don't disagree with your statistics.

But let's say that 30 or 40% of the people that perpetrate a certain crime are Christians? Or Americans? Or Freepers? Does that make the other 60 or 70% of us guilty?

Just because something is more likely in a given group, does not mean it is right to tar and feather the majority.

Like I said, there are fair and legitimate reasons to oppose gay marriage. But this kind of argument undercuts that because it is provably not true in the majority of cases. Sick people are sick people...no matter what group they may be affiliated with.

[GMMAC]

While the likelihood of homosexuals molesting children is at the far end of the negative behavior scale, would you blame anyone who chose to 'play the odds' when selecting a babysitter? The better arguments have to do with children's (as opposed to the adults') best interests.

Children's ideal role models - for a host of well documented reasons - are their natural, married to each other, opposite sex parents. Straying from the ideal strays from what's best for a child.

Morally, it's one thing when unfortunate circumstances don't permit children this ideal but entirely another when narcissistic adults arbitrarily decide that their own imagined "rights" are paramount to those of children and selfishly deny them as much.

For adults, being able to place your own interests secondary to those of a child is a mark of both maturity & of being a conscientious parent. Believing up front that a child simply doesn't need a mother or a father or heterosexual primary role models & then proceeding accordingly indicates neither.