Is there an intelligent way to connect gay marriage with children?

Question

Gay marriage is between 2 consenting adults. So what does that have to do with children?

I think many are threatened because children raised by gay parents would not be taught to be bigots.

Answer 1

No. The statement that one is "against gay marriage for the children" is political hogwash. Politicians love to say that something is "for the children" because then it sounds pure and high-minded.

Gay marriage doesn't affect children. Gay couples, married or not, can have children or adopt, just like straight couples. Letting the gay couple get married isn't going to affect their right to have children, nor will it affect the children they are already raising.

If Hitler were alive today, I am certain he would advocate the etermination of the Jews "for the children". It sounds better than "because I'm a bigoted bastard."

Answer 2

Connection with children is that marriage is the union that presents the accepted recepticle for children.
According to the accepted norm, a man and woman get married, and THEN have children. If they cannot conceive on their own, they adopt, artificially inseminate, or other go to some other extraordinary means.
In gay marriage, the couple would present the same social recepticle for children. This would allow gay couples, married, to adopt.

The fear in THIS is that then children would be raised in a household where it is okay to be gay. Thus, more children may "turn" gay by thinking it is okay, normal, or even preferred.


*the above does not represent my opinion, just the facts that answer the question*

Answer 3

I guess the gay person could already have children or plan to adopt, but so what? I'm all for gay marriage. Marriage between two consenting adults is fine with me. And I'm fine with gay people adopting too. I know plenty of straight people who shouldn't have children, that's for sure. I see no reason why being gay should rule out raising a child. As long as you're a loving person, go for it.

Answer 4

Well, my wife and I, like many married couples we know, have no intention of having children. Thus, procreation was not a reason for us to get married. This did not cause demonstrations or calls for our marriage to be made illegal. Having children is in no way a requirement for marriage. What may be 'normal' to you is unfathomable to others. Marriage is not a biological function, it is a social contract. There's nothing natural about it, so what anyone believes to be natural or unnatural is irrelevant.

Answer 5

Of course there is, some gay people have kids.


EDIT: Also anyone who thinks that it is better for kids to waste away in foster care or group homes rather than be adopted by a stable and loving gay couple ineeds to get off the morality and understand the reality of what kids go through in foster care. Something like 70% of kids in foster care will be sexually molested in the first year.

Contrary to the prejudices of religious bigots, homosexual couples are not more likely to abuse their children than heterosexual couples. In fact they are probably less likely to do so since the entracnce of the child into the family is always a choice.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Putting two consenting gay adults on the same level as those who build the nation by their work and love in caring for children is an injustice and an erosion of society. Noted by sociologists and historians, this type of equivalence has lead to the downfall of several powerful civilizations. Including, arguable though, the Roman empire.

Outside of say that a gay couple does not equal a child bearing heterosexual couple I'm not sure exactly how to appease people. Or how exactly to state the truth.


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Your bigotry comment has caused me to edit this answer. I have seen much bigotry in and among gay people and shown from gay people to the general populace as well. If we resort to Kinsey (you are well read right?) we find that bigotry against gays is as natural as Kinsey asserts being gay is.

Of importance here, is the fact that children of gay couple are always going to have more difficulties. There will be those who disrespect them because the disrespect their parents. They personally will have increased difficulty dealing with the sex that is... underrepresented in their household. While I won't compare this situation to one in which the family is composed of a single parent and children, it is readily obvious that the situation is less than ideal.

Thus, those who intend to fulfill their duty to their country by having children within a heterosexual marriage, in full morality, are to be supported in society, and their position held as unique and exalted above others who would say they are the same.

Answer 8

Parenting skill has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Statistically speaking, most child molestation occurs within families, by heterosexual parents (usually male). You don't have to believe me; look it up. And I agree: Gay parents would most likely raise very tolerant children. Compassion, understanding, and unconditional love are not exclusive to traditional married couples.

Answer 9

there is nothing intelligent about gay marriage, let alone having a gay couple raising a child.
The term 'gay marriage' is an oxymoron. And 'gay parents' closely follows it.


EDIT
Per your additional comment:
Teaching their children to be less bigoted is the LEAST of their worries. Children of gay parents will suffer from far more serious psychological problems throughout their lives because of the unnaturalness of their situation... not to mention the cruelty that they will unfortunately be subjected to.
Those of us who recognize this - WITHOUT judgement, by the way, may be the "still small voices", but call it what you will, in 20 - 30 years, society will reap the rewards of their folly in both legalizing gay marriage AND in allowing gay parents to claim parenthood over children.

Answer 10

The wording of your question is unclear. Gay marriage has nothing to do with children, unless they want to know what it is. Then, depending on the age of the child, it can be explained to them. If a gay couple adopts, or a lesbian couple has a baby, that has to do with children too.