love makes a family?
my local paper published an editorial today (free reg) titled Love makes the difference with the subtitle Prohibiting same-sex marriage harms both gay couples and their children. a recent study has shown that children do best in two parent homes. I don't know if gay parents were included in this study. the editors then reason, "Good parents can be gay or straight. Bad parents can be gay or straight. Studies, written and reviewed by pediatricians, psychologists and other child health care professionals, indicate that children's development — socially, emotionally, academically — cannot be tied to their parents' sexual orientation. If it's a loving environment, children will achieve." Here is the irony. The very same people who argue for equal status under the flag of diversity want to deprive children of diverse parental influence, a man and a woman.
i think these talking points from family.org are helpful.
-Same-sex families always deny children either their mother or father.
-Same-sex family is a vast, untested social experiment with children.
-Where does it stop? How do we say "no" to group marriage?
-Schools will be forced to teach that the homosexual family is normal. Churches will be legally pressured to perform same-sex ceremonies.
Marriage Is Always About the Next Generation...
A loving and compassionate society always comes to the aid of motherless and fatherless families.
A loving and compassionate society never intentionally creates motherless or fatherless families, which is exactly what every same-sex home does.
The same-sex family is not driven by the needs of children, but rather by the radical wishes of a small group of adults.
No child development theory says children need two parents of the same gender, but rather that children need their mothers and fathers.
A Vast Social Experiment Inflicted Upon Children...
No society, at any time, has ever raised a generation of children in same-sex families.
Same-sex “marriage” will subject generations of children to the status of lab rats in (name of debate opponent’s) vast, untested social experiment.
i think these talking points from family.org are helpful.
-Same-sex families always deny children either their mother or father.
-Same-sex family is a vast, untested social experiment with children.
-Where does it stop? How do we say "no" to group marriage?
-Schools will be forced to teach that the homosexual family is normal. Churches will be legally pressured to perform same-sex ceremonies.
Marriage Is Always About the Next Generation...
A loving and compassionate society always comes to the aid of motherless and fatherless families.
A loving and compassionate society never intentionally creates motherless or fatherless families, which is exactly what every same-sex home does.
The same-sex family is not driven by the needs of children, but rather by the radical wishes of a small group of adults.
No child development theory says children need two parents of the same gender, but rather that children need their mothers and fathers.
A Vast Social Experiment Inflicted Upon Children...
No society, at any time, has ever raised a generation of children in same-sex families.
Same-sex “marriage” will subject generations of children to the status of lab rats in (name of debate opponent’s) vast, untested social experiment.
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as many civil union opponents from the gay side assert, including a person is not the same as being married to them.
as far as the first generation to be raised by gay parents, this could be the first one done with approval by society, and affirmation of it, which is a new social dynamic, makes this generation different.
another scary assertion is that it makes no difference who raises the child. ask a child raised in an orphanage. ask adopted children. what about Rosie O'Donnell's son...again from "Talking Points"..."Rosie O’Donnell shared this story in an ABC Primetime Live interview with Diane Sawyer:
Six-year-old Parker asks his mother, Rosie: “Mommy, why can’t I have a daddy?” Rosie answers: “Because I’m the kind of mommy who wants another mommy.”"
an adult can choose to redefine his family but a child can't, and forcing the child to not have a mother or a father, at home, married, is contrary to the child's nature.
i can leave you to your choice, but if your choice becomes legislated, then my opinion becomes hate speech. Mitt Romney pointed out, "Parents complained when a second-grade teacher read aloud a story in which a prince marries another prince, rather than a princess. The superintendent responded that the school was 'teaching children about the world they live in, and in Massachusetts, same-sex marriage is legal.'" see the subsequent post which links to a Christianity Today article. that article concludes, "Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, is not so sure that other states will be protected from having to acknowledge same-sex marriages from Massachusetts. If that happens, she believes charities that oppose homosexual unions would be treated with the same stigma as institutions that sponsor racism. As a result, religious schools and missions could lose their tax-exempt status, she said."
so you can call anyone your family, i consider my church a family, but our genetics define who our family is.