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Can some please cite some sources for this oft-made, yet rarely supported, claim? The American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have found no systematic difference between children raised by gay parents and those raised by straight parents.
Hold on for the ride.
As a teacher I see the direct effect on students when they don't even have a memory of either a dad or a mom. No matter how privlidged they are, they are angry.
If gay marrige does ever become the norm, be ready for some very very angry kids in our society.
It may take awhile to show up but it will happen/
Logically, then, you'd be happy if the State removed all children from single-parent households and placed them with two-parent foster families where they'd "grow up best."
Should a single parent marry, the "two parents of opposite sexes" could petition the State to get the kid(s) back.
After all, if it helps only one child --
I don't really think that is the real way you believe.
Your DESIRE is to keep gay people from marrying, your REASONING is your way to try to convince others to let your do it.
Could anyone here give your story growing up with gay parents? We live in a more tolerant age however; introducing your best friend to mom and mom or dad and dad seems to me, at the core there would be some resentment, embarrassment or anxiety.
I would prefer to see children growing up with mommy and daddy who really love each other than with parents who stick it out because of the children. Kids know when mommy and daddy don�t' love each other and that too, will affect them and our society negatively.
2. If children who are raised in a home other than with both of their biological parents, why do we allow divorce in cases where there are minor children?
The anti-gay marriage crowd likes to talk about how "sacred" marriage is but our society doesn't treat it as such. Marriages fail at around a 50% rate. That doesn't sound like we value marriages as much as we like to say we do. An LDS man with a temple marriage can have an affair with his secretary, leave his wife and kids for her, and then marry the secretary in the temple just a short time later. Why?
I'm not sure but perhaps a child would be better off being raised by two committed homosexuals than by a mom and step-dad with a bunch of half siblings and being passed back and forth between mulitple families every few days.
Let's face it. Our families today are so messed up that it's hard to fathom how we can say society believes and treats them as sacred.
2) The legalization of gay marriage in Europe has nothing to do with low marriage rates WORLD WIDE. Anyone who has served an LDS mission in the last 10 years can tell you that people EVERYWHERE simply aren't getting married. It has nothing to do with gay marriage.
This argument is based on false premise, that reproduction is the primary purpose of marriage.
This is of course a premise of LDS doctrine, but it is certainly NOT the case in Europe or among progressive, educated Americans.
Proposition 8 had nothing to do with protecting any marriage between a man and a woman. Read its language: It was an order for the government to deny marriage licenses to certain couples, based on gender.
Proposition 8 supporters should not fool themselves: All it did was grind California gays and lesbians under the bootheels of meddlesome government.
I suspect many of them are concerned about excessive, intrusive government. But they should not complain when the wolf they themselves unleashed comes howling at their own doors.
Single-parent homes and orphans exist because people die, they divorce, and they bear children out of wedlock. Gay marriage is not the reason for single-parent homes, or children without parents. Ugh, can we please stop lying about this? (and the social trends in Europe.)