How does gay marriage threaten the tradtional family?

Question

Please ignore your knee jerk reactions and answer honestly how you think a married heterosexual couple with or without kids would in any way be affected by Ted and Steve tying the knot.

I really would appreciate learning what it is that seems to threaten so many people about this issue and how they see it even affecting their lives.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Ted and Steve raising a baby together don't bother me they can probably take care of a baby better than I can , I get nervous just holding a baby . Whoever can properly love and raise that child gets my vote everytime.

Answer 2

Gay marriage threatens the traditional by it going against the Bible. God didnt intend on same-sex couples to populate the earth. So the average joe child will think its ok to explore homosexuality as well as heterosexuality. If the child chooses homo- this does not fulfill God's plan.
Also, people think most gay ppl become gay because of sexual abuse at young ages. Well if a gay married couple has a child, then they might abuse that child in the same way. Therefore causing the child to think its okay to do that or have a messed up mentality.

Answer 3

Firstly, nowadays there is no such thing as traditional marriage, if there ever was such a thing. A marriage as depicted in old style movies of the house wife the husband and the fabulous kids probably never existed.

Now, if we talk about the mental health of the children, they seem to be better off with same sex couples than they do in a heterosexual environment. Studies show that the only adverse affects of a homosexual family is that the children sometimes grow up and become homophobic themselves.

And, this bible argument: If Adam and Eve had two children, both of them MALE, how did they populate the Earth. Did they have sex with their mother or themselves? Also, to think that it was only Adam and Eve in the beginning of civilization, everyone would be so inbred that society, and live as we know it would not be able to function.

Answer 4

Gay marriage doesn't threaten traditional heterosexual marriage at all. Although I don't necessarily believe in "Gay marriage", instead I believe in Gay unions and this is why. Gay couples who have supported each other & children and been committed to each other for years, has established a home and is dependent on one another should be afforded a lot of the same benefits and rights as any "traditional couple, i.e. Health\Life insurnace. I do believe that marriage was created by God specifically for male and female, but I also believe that God knows that true love exists between people of the same sex, loves them the same and does not punish because of it.

I do believe that the government doesn't want gay couples to have access to the same financial\tax benefits that traditional heterosexual couples do. This is why they try to create a lot of chaos and divisiveness around the issue; this should not be a political issue. We have more to worry about in this country and world than trying to belittle and destroy love between two consensual adults.

Answer 5

It doesn't, people just like to control others for being different... Now I don't understand homosexuality but I don't care if Ted is sticking it up Steve's anus... The only thing about it is that I am not for gay marriage, not because I think that they should not have the same rights but because it would help maintain seperation of church and state... They should be able to have all of the legal rights that married couples have but the government should not be telling churches what to do unless the church decides on it's own that it will marry gays

Answer 6

For one and the greatest affect. Bill and Bob cannot not have children so if gay people were to marry each other there be no one left to pro create.
The essence's of two opposites to attract each other is ruin,
there be no one left to express the nature of love born between a man and a women.
The traditions of womanhood and or man's values and respect for the very fabric of life as has been known, perished

I could on and on., But you know, ! as long as there is people like myself and a hell of alot more out there, I'll do whatever i can to instill family traditions upon my children and the rest of the world. Because it's the only way it was meant to be.

If gay people want to be gay, Fine just don't spread it all over the world and especially in decent neighborhoods where a couple work so hard to have their family lives. where your Mother and Father live. where your sister goes to school, where your brother learned to skate, where maybe you met your first love in your school. Sabe?

Hope this wasn't so abrasive but its my thinking and feelings about this issue

"nuff said"

Answer 7

Truthfully, my marriage is totally unaffected.

However gay marriage is an attempt to normalize what is abnormal and call it something it isn't.

In so doing society is weakened.

That said, I think homosexuals should be allowed many of the benefits of marriage through civil unions, and could call themselves married if they so wished. I would not formalize the relationship as a marriage through legal recognition, but that would be no barrier to people who sincerely love each other.

Homosexuals would benefit, and society would as well, if they pursued more monogamy. But I think marriage is going a bit too far.

I did this without jerking my knee. I realize there are many people who don't feel as I do. I'm somewhere in the middle. I consider homosexuality to be a social abheration, but have had friends who were gay and I don't hate them for it, nor do I fear them. I do not agree with their sexual preference, but I do agree that they should be able to make it without being persecuted.

Answer 8

Gay Marriage does not threaten a traditional family, if there is a such thing as a traditional family. the fact is that they are obviously jealous because you are happy and they aren't. If they were, they would keep there opinions to them selves. I know how u feel though, my family "tried" that on me, don't EVER let them bring you down, this is your life, and it is short. enjoy it, that is what Love is all about.If it's in your heart, tell that person every day and night how much u Love them, and how much u want to be with them, no matter what anybody saids to you.if they disown you, you never had them to begin with, that's how i see it. I learned the hard way that you can't make everyone happy. go on with your life whether they like it or not.

Answer 9

I am going to be totally honest with you. I have gay friends but I do not agree with their lifestyle I have told them so and we leave it at that. Homosexuality threatens the course and structure that God has already layed out for us to follow. Our sole purpose on this Earth is to spread the Christian message and to work towards getting to heaven. Accepting gay marriage makes our children think that it is alright and it is not. If the bible says that it is an abomination in God's eyes then I believe it to be so. I do not hate anyone I can not agree with what you do but still like you as a person and that is how my friends and I am. If you are not a christian and you do not wish to embrace Jesus then don't worry about it because you won't get to heaven anyway but there are those of us who teach our children about the bible and take them to church and want them to follow the right path and don't want all that hardwork sidetracked because now I have to explain to my son why the little girl in his class has two daddies.

Answer 10

it doesn't affect any individual relationship, but it does create a paradigm shift for some. some people have never considered homosexuality as any other than sexual desire. gay marriage suggests that gay relationships are emotionally equal to straight relationships... thus denying that being gay is merely a sexual deviation. it also makes it much more difficult to hate gays if their orientation is emotional and not just behavioral. its the confrontation of these issues that is threatening to people, just like when Galileo suggested the earth orbit the sun... the idea is "threatening" because it's mentally challenging, not because it is dangerous in any physical way.

Answer 11

A lot of people feel that the raising of a child requires a mother figure. I'm not sure how a gay couple without children can threaten traditional family, however.