How is gay marriage destructive to society?

Answer 1

I'm wondering if it's beneficial. If you choose to live the gay lifestyle, don't you also choose not to marry? Isn't it just part of the package?
Why can't you just "live together" like heteros do?

Answer 2

It's not. I'm in a "traditional" marriage (you know, male-female, children) and I don't feel my marriage mocked in any way whatever.

Now if by "society" you mean a group of people seeking to co-exist in peace then I'd say that bigotry and prejudice are destructive to society. I'm happy to field arguments that, in fact, bigotry/prejudice are the glue that bonds society together, though I warn you, I reckon I've got an answer for you.

Divorce between partners of any orientation, now that's destructive. You know, of course, that divorce is proportionately higher between couples who describe themselves as "born again" Christians? After that come Christians, and least likely of these groups to get divorced are atheists. It's too early to say whether or not gay marriages break down at traditional rates, though if they're a destructive force, then the bar has been set pretty high by the born-agains. (I believe that partners in arranged marriages are least of all likely to get divorced.)

Oh, and a marriage without children mocks marriage? The most Christian couple I know (lovely people, too, I really like them) have been unable to conceive in ten years of marriage. They are desperate for a child while everyone around them has them effortlessly. As they see it, God (as I see it, biology) has denied them the children they crave. Do I take it that because they cannot have children, they should be seen as some kind of abberation?

I wish some of the answerers to this question had some concept of shame. They are just vile, spiteful hypocrites.

Answer 3

It gives divorce attorneys more clients.

If allowed, straight people will have to get married instead of living in sin like they do now.

There will be more great weddings to go to where relatives WILL NOT be invited (about $16.8 billon per year)

According to the 2000 census, there were 17,099 same-sex couples in Massachusetts. If half had weddings costing $10,000 apiece (less than half the amount typically spent on a wedding in the state), Massachusetts businesses would reap $85 million

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CB0) estimates, ending marriage discrimination would improve the federal budget’s bottom line by just under $1 billion in each of the next 10 years.

San Francisco city Controller Ed Harrington estimated that withholding marriage licenses from same-sex couples costs the city anywhere from $15.3 million to 19.6 million per year, because the city pays more than $13 million annually in public health and social service costs for residents who can not take advantage of their partner’s medical benefits

Answer 4

I don't think it is destructive. For all of the respondents stating that a marriage is only productive to society if children are produced "in a normal way," I'd like to say GET REAL. Hundreds of thousands of happily married couples are effected by infertility and cannot have children by traditional means. I have been married for 9 years and we cannot have children. I know my marriage is good and stable, and as a team, my husband and I bring a lot of positive attributes to our families and our community. According to those who say that a marriage is only productive if children are naturally brought into the world, our marriage should be considered null and void. And if the millions of people people who suffer from infertility are "exceptions" to this rule, then it must not be a very valid one.

Love and commitment between two consenting adults is never a bad thing. People being judgemental and small-minded is ALWAYS a bad thing. I say if someone is against gay marriage, then they don't need to be involved in one. But they shouldn't try to impose their own religiously-based ideals upon those who don't share them.

Answer 5

...The gay lifestyle is very destructive to the human body. The human body just isn't design for their kind of activity. How can this lifestyle be good and beneficial? The Centers for Disease Control, which is hardly a right-wing, fundamental evangelical establishment, has reported that the average life expectancy for a gay male is 41 years. This is considerably less than straight people. That lifestyle is not good for society.
...Gays generally have multiple partners, which is very unhealthy. Very few gay couples stay together.

Answer 6

I see a lot of arguments about how narrow minded people are, and that religious people should quit trying to force their opinions on people. I am a Christian and I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I see people stating that WE should look at it from their point of view but I never see them looking at it from ours. That is just my opinion, but I am entitled to it. The marriage between a man and a woman has been established long before I was born. So by that notion THEY are trying to force their opinion on us, that gay marriage is okay.

Answer 7

If gay marriage was legalized, then the existing order of human social life as we know it would be destroyed.

How is gay marriage constructive to society?

Answer 8

It isn't. People who give the procreative argument must then say that couples who can't have children should have their marriages annulled. People don't question what they've been taught because it's become such an integral part of their identity and their worldview. If they did the research, they'd see that Levitcus has it in there because of the jewish tribe's need to mandate procreative sex (increase their numbers) and to distinguish their group from others. It's in the new testament because saul of tarsus (paul) who never met jesus was a powerful personality and charismatic missionary who took it upon himself to become an authority on theology and belief, writing letters to the early christian communities (letters to romans, etc.). As a Jew raised with leviticus, he was raised in a very anti-homosexuality culture. It's so simple but people don't question.

Answer 9

It isn't.

It has no effect on heterosexual marriage - gay people won't marry straight ones just because they can't marry a fellow gay and straights won't marry gays just because they can.

Denying gay marriage is destructive of society because it requires logical contortions and a denial of equal rights to all adult citizens.

Answer 10

It is destructive because of all the narrow minded idiots out there making a big deal about it. Everyone has a right to persue happiness. Some people are only happy if they are making other people lives miserable just because their lifestyle is different.

Answer 11

It doesn't. Shallow people who worry about what everyone else is doing and not themselves claim it would, but I have yet to see any evidence of that happening. Societies do not fall just because 2 men or 2 women decide to have sex.