8th November 2004, 12:25 PM
Since when was marriage a 'right' or a 'freedom'?
Marriage is a privelege. Like any privelege, conditions have to be met. Having children isn't a right either. It's easy enough to make your own, but see how easy it is to adopt one. Families in particular and society in general has been in a slow and steady decline over the last several decades. There are few who would be stupid enough to dispute this. The reason for this is that moral standards are being erased. Marrying someone and having children used to be a very big deal, and it's no coincidence that family ties were much stronger in the past. Now, you have a society of broken homes, of child support and alimony, and as a result, you have a society of children who aspire to become criminals because the shitty musicians they idolize tell them this is good, and they lack the discipline and wisdom they would have otherwise enjoyed from a stable family.
Sure, legalizing gay marriage won't START the collapse, it's been going on for years now. But a stable, heterosexual couple is undoubtedly the most optimal for raising a good family. Just because liberals have been working on destroying the American family for forty years successfully is no reason to damage it further.
Whatever gay people want to do in their own bedrooms is fine with me. But they are not normal, and they won't (or can't, if you prefer) play by the rules of society. They should not find it suprising that society doesn't want to damage itself to assauge their flaws. If they want families, they can do it the way everyone else does. If they can't deal with it, too bad. Because damage will be done, if this goes through: A new generation with even less morality and stability, and who can say how long it will be before polygamists, bigamists, bestials or other such social misfits decide it's time THEY had equal rights because THEY were born to marry multiple partners, or children, or cute little puppies or trees, or whatever. They would be supplying an argument with as much weight as the 'homosexuality is biological' crowd, because if one form of sexual deviance is natural, all of them MUST be.
Marriage is a privelege. Like any privelege, conditions have to be met. Having children isn't a right either. It's easy enough to make your own, but see how easy it is to adopt one. Families in particular and society in general has been in a slow and steady decline over the last several decades. There are few who would be stupid enough to dispute this. The reason for this is that moral standards are being erased. Marrying someone and having children used to be a very big deal, and it's no coincidence that family ties were much stronger in the past. Now, you have a society of broken homes, of child support and alimony, and as a result, you have a society of children who aspire to become criminals because the shitty musicians they idolize tell them this is good, and they lack the discipline and wisdom they would have otherwise enjoyed from a stable family.
Sure, legalizing gay marriage won't START the collapse, it's been going on for years now. But a stable, heterosexual couple is undoubtedly the most optimal for raising a good family. Just because liberals have been working on destroying the American family for forty years successfully is no reason to damage it further.
Whatever gay people want to do in their own bedrooms is fine with me. But they are not normal, and they won't (or can't, if you prefer) play by the rules of society. They should not find it suprising that society doesn't want to damage itself to assauge their flaws. If they want families, they can do it the way everyone else does. If they can't deal with it, too bad. Because damage will be done, if this goes through: A new generation with even less morality and stability, and who can say how long it will be before polygamists, bigamists, bestials or other such social misfits decide it's time THEY had equal rights because THEY were born to marry multiple partners, or children, or cute little puppies or trees, or whatever. They would be supplying an argument with as much weight as the 'homosexuality is biological' crowd, because if one form of sexual deviance is natural, all of them MUST be.
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