If you are against gay marriage, explain why without mentioning religion

[fordy]

think-man said:

fordy said:

think-man said:

You just have to look at it from the childrens point of view, these four paragraphs alone from that article pretty much sum up my point.

Quite simply, growing up with gay parents was very difficult, and not because of prejudice from neighbors. People in our community didn’t really know what was going on in the house. To most outside observers, I was a well-raised, high-achieving child, finishing high school with straight A's.

Inside, however, I was confused. When your home life is so drastically different from everyone around you, in a fundamental way striking at basic physical relations, you grow up weird. I have no mental health disorders or biological conditions. I just grew up in a house so unusual that I was destined to exist as a social outcast.

He then goes on to say:

Regnerus’s study identified 248 adult children of parents who had same-sex romantic relationships. Offered a chance to provide frank responses with the hindsight of adulthood, they gave reports unfavorable to the gay marriage equality agenda. Yet the results are backed up by an important thing in life called common sense: Growing up different from other people is difficult and the difficulties raise the risk that children will develop maladjustments or self-medicate with alcohol and other dangerous behaviors. Each of those 248 is a human story, no doubt with many complexities.

Like my story, these 248 people’s stories deserve to be told. The gay movement is doing everything it can to make sure that nobody hears them. But I care more about the stories than the numbers (especially as an English professor), and Regnerus stumbled unwittingly on a narrative treasure chest.

So your response is, to society's outcasting of this child, is to punish the people who care for him, rather than the bigotry in society who deem him an outcast? You're seeing the logic of this, right? You say gay partners should not have children because it will make the chuildren social outcasts, but the reasoning behind why society believe it's weird is because it's something that HAS been repressed throughout society, and not the norm. Take for instance, single mothers. They used to be deemed whores or sluts in society, and the children got the same treatment. Do you see much of that anymore? No, because society has since accepted single parenting as a norm.

I can see that we aren't getting anywhere with this, so lets agree to disagree.

Have a good day.

The single parent argument is logical and just. Why wont you argue against it? Are you afraid that society WILL accept children of gay couples just like children of single parents someday?

What's you're trying to defend is bigoted views by society. I still can't see how you're sticking to that...