Should GAYS be allowed to MARRY? What about adopt childre??

Question

I want to know your opinion. Should gays be allowed to marry? Explain your opinion. Also, should they be allowed to adopt children.? Explain. And for those who wonder my own personal opinion, I am completely against them both.

Answer 1

Why shouldn't they be allowed to be as unhappy as the rest of us? The US was built on the principle of all men being created equal, why are they less deserving of equal rights? And as far as adopting children goes, homosexuality is not contagious, they are not going to convert their adopted children. Do you honestly think the child would be happier in an orphanage than in a good home with a loving family? That is just ignorant.

Answer 2

Yes and yes.

The term 'marriage' is both a religious and a state concept (a package of benefits and laws that affect everything from tax law, to inheritance, to child custody, to medical decisions, etc.). Perhaps we should have separate words for the two concepts, but we don't. So if the 'sanctity of marriage' people want to restore the word 'marriage' to a strictly religious concept by stripping it of legal benefits and laws, and create a separate word for the legal package, I would have no objection. But if the *state* has legal benefits and rights attached to the word 'marriage', then there is no *legal* reason the state can deny those benefits and rights to gay couples.

The issue of adopting children is much simpler than that of marriage (because there is no church/state issue). The fact is that gay couples can make *terrific* parents. (I know several ... for the record, I am a straight parent, and I know several very happy, well-adjusted children of gay parents.) So if a straight couple and a gay couple make it through the same adoption screening process ... then on what legal basis should the state prohibit the gay couple from adopting?

So there is no *legal* reason to deny gay couples either right.

But more important ... what makes a good marriage has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Heterosexuals can make great marriages and parents, but they can just as easily make disastrous marriages and truly horrible, destructive parents. What makes a good marriage is comitment to each other. What makes good parents are two people comitted to each other and to the children. That's *it*. That is the only correlating factor. Anything else is just blind prejudice.

Answer 3

Everyone should be able to do as they want as long as it does not infringe upon the rights and property of another. The Human body is only a vehicle used by spirits for playing in this game. There is so much more serious matters to be attracted to then, what some other person who has done no wrong to anyone else wants to do with another consenting adult. People fear what they don't understand or have been lead like sheep to believe. What you should be worried about is how your government is stealing away your freedoms that you where born to have. Those who are running this country are the one's whom you should keep your eyes on not some innocent person who is only doing what it's spirit wants to do. Homosexuality is only a malfunctioning of the DNA commands written in the codes of sexuality. Despite what you have been told and learned, Life is just a game the spirit lives on after death don't take it so seriously, go withing yourself instead of outside sources and you will find truth or lead to it.

Answer 4

First of all, "Gays" is a derrogative term. Second of all, why is it moral to allow the union between a man and a woman, and not a man and a man?

I'm not saying this just because my sister and my uncle are gay. But because if you were to write in the constitution that you cannot get married to someone you love if you are gay, then that is WRITING IN DESCRIMINATION. Isn't against the law to descriminate against someone based on skin color, religion, etc? Well, how fair is it to descriminate based on sexual orientation? Marriage is a declaration of love, and of being together for the rest of your life, and that can happen between any two people regardless of sexual orientation. Who says that a book written two thousand years ago, which nobody can authenticate is the absolute truth? Religion is a nice guideline, but unfortunately it cannot be relied on for everything in a modern age.

As for our forefathers believing that homosexual people should not get married, where does it say this? If somebody gives me proof that this is written in somewhere, then its legit, but it's not written in the constitution, its not written in the bill of rights, its not written in the declaration of independace, etc. So, how do you know that is what our forefathers believe?

Anybody can adopt a child. In many cases only one gay parent adopts the child, so it is essentially like living with one parent, and their friend. My cousins who found out recently that my uncle was gay, 3 out of 4 of them accepted it. How do you think it traumatizes kids when they find out at 18 or 19 that their parent is gay? By having gay couples raise children, doesn't that help create a more accepting community? And just because your parent, or sibling, or whoever is gay, doesn't mean that the child is going to "pick up" or "learn" the same "behavior". I lived with my sister for 16 years and no, I am not gay. Who's to say being a good parent depends on whether the individual is gay or not? The children need good homes, so it should not matter.

Basically, descriminating against gay people is wrong. It is just like descriminating against someone who is of another religion, or of another race. Everyone needs to be open minded and see it for what it really is, not the distorted version of it that the media and politics say what it is.

Answer 5

The simple fact for me is yes. If two people love each other and wish to take on the responsibility of caring for each other, society should celebrate it. It has no negative impact on opposite-sex marriage. Anyone who says their marriage is less valuable because a gay couple got married has trouble with their marriage.

As far as adopting children anyone who believes children should remain in the foster care system and that its somehow better for kids than a same-sex home is cruel. I will not argue that a same-sex home is better than an opposite sex home. All studies have shown that a home with a mother and father is best. In the real world, though, kids need homes. Children survive and thrive in single-parent families. They survive in combined families that result from second marriages. Children will survive and thrive in same-sex couple households. Two parents of the same sex are better than no parents at all.

The problems with the family have nothing to do with gay and lesbian people. Those problems arose from a multitude of issues involving a changing economy and our mass exodus to the suburbs.

Answer 6

AS$ hollow!!! With on the present time in age maximum all of us is very liberal in the direction of gays, im gay and in intense college and that i dont get picked on, made relaxing of or something. midsection college waz a fluctuate tale yet i've got been given into fights alot and ended that entire element. And there are alot of gay those with little ones and the suicidal cost has no longer something to do with it, i advise my god, have you ever heard everywhere that the suicidal cost has went up cuz the teenager has 2 mothers or dads No. because of the fact it isnt genuine or would be in any significant way. what's being objected to is tolerance of gays, no longer genuine promoting of homosexuality. And if tolerance itself isn't suited, what's the absence of tolerance? that's bigotry. If we don't sell tolerance interior the typical public colleges, we are accepting that bigotry has a place there. is this particularly what we could like?

Answer 7

Yes, they should be allowed to marry and adopt children. Two adults who love each other should have the same rights as other married couples and have families. Naturally, they need to go through the same application process as everyone else who adopts.

Answer 8

Why should they not be allowed to marry? If they fall in love like the way we all do, they have all the rights as everybody to spend their lives with their chosen partners. They should also be allowed to adopt children, because being parents are roles that we can do, regardless of our sexual preferences. They are no different from each one of us, hence all the rights we have, they should be afforded with, as well. :)

Answer 9

Of course on both counts. The constitution is supposed to provide for equal rights, not just rights for hetrosexuals. In time, people will look back on this struggle and draw parallels with what happened during the integration struggles forty years ago.

Answer 10

I'll agree with you on both counts.

The first because marriage is defined and has been for some time a the union between a man and a woman. And because I consider homosexual acts to be non productive and biologically unsound practices.

The second should go without saying why would I be an advocate for subjecting a child to constant exposure to those non productive and biologically unsound acts?