Please help me understand the purpose of having to have the government recognize two guys who want to play husband and wife. Can they reproduce? Does one have to stay home and take care of the kids? If they want to pretend to be something they are not, that is their business, but don't drag everyone else into it.
In completely non-secular legalese terms, gay marriage throws a wrench into the system of parental rights and all that jazz.
Let's say there are a husband and a wife and a child. The husband and wife gets divorced. The husband gets to see the child on weekends and alternate thursdays, and for a few weeks in the summer. Then, the wife (who is raising the child most of the time) decides men are no longer for her and finds another wife (who is able to legally adopt the child, as a step-father would). Then, those 2 subsequently get divorced and wife #1 finds someone else (who cares which gender it is at this point) and wife #2 finds someone else.
Who gets to see the child on weekends? How many parents does this kid have?? And they will all want a piece of the kid, not to mention I haven't even touched on the subject of alimony. The only people who truly stand to benefit are the lawyers and the only people who truly stand to lose are the children.
Also - whether or not you believe in Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Mel Gibson, or Logic H. Reason as your God, and no matter how we were created, it is a fact that genetically a child is created by one mother and one father. There has to be a reason for this.
I could honestly care less whom anyone decides to have sex with. There are 2 kinds of sex. Sex for the right reasons (involving both pleasure and responsibility), and sex for purely pleasure. The first category involves a married man and woman. The second category involves a wide array of categories, such as:
* two dudes
* two chicks
* people who aren't married
* any combination of X dudes and X+1 chicks (or X+1 dudes and X chicks) where X is greater than or equal to one
* a human being and something else that isn't human
* a lonely dude and a vacuum cleaner
* a President and an intern in an office in the West Wing
* a man and a woman who get an abortion afterward
* and (as far as what I believe, being Catholic) where birth control is utilized (although that one is up to some debate from all of the non-Catholics)
Whether you are religious or not, the natural order of things is that a child has a mother and a father. Gay marriage tosses a wrench into the mix, and only messes things up. As someone else has said, feel free to examine countries in Europe where this has been allowed.
Until the era of political correctness, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental disorder. A characteristic of the homosexual is a tendency toward paranoia. Thus today, they are constantly pursuing acceptance from the public. Despite their claims they desire to seduce our children into their ways. Their sexual practices are so repugnant....beyond your imagination! And there is much more violence in the homosexual community. Homosexual relationships are seldom long lasting and are chararacterized by much strife and violence.