Is same sex marriage more of a threat to the fabric of a successful society than divorce?

Question

(no cracks about "fabric", por favor)

Answer 1

What you are really asking is...are equal civil rights for all citizens more of a threat to society than divorce?... No, is the only answer for any decent and thinking person.

I don't think divorce is particularly a threat to the fabric of society either, humans adapt to new social mores, change is inevitable, those people and institutions that cannot adapt to inevitable change simply don't survive. Society and the way we live our lives always moves on, marriage and the make-up of the family has already radically changed and the institutions surrounding both must change also.

Answer 2

Nope, stigma towards homosexuality has actually cuased a lot of divorces just like expectations of what "Marriage" and "Family" are suppose to be cause divorce. So if divorce is the result of social problems, especially misguided "socially acceptable norms" then it is obviously divorce. At the same timea trueley committed, trusting, and loving married couple is good for society. SO divorce should not be looked down on either.

Answer 3

I always thought that was silly and absurd how the various 'family values' groups are against gay marriage.

Wouldn't anybody getting married, even gays, be SUPPORTING the institution of marriage? By opposing gay marriage, isn't that actually encouraging the sort of promiscuity that conservatives oppose?

Perhaps the 'family values' folks have the silly idea that if two gay guys are stopped from marrying, then they'll slap themselves on the forehead and proclaim, "Of course, I should marry a woman instead!" and go get Jesus or something. In reality, though, they'll just form a domestic partnership instead, but at least it's better than the 50% or so heterosexual marriages that end in divorce...

Answer 4

I don't think so. I don't think divorce is a bad thing, either. Divorce is a sad thing, but can also be a blessing. People don't have to be miserable in a marriage anymore. I think individuals are the cells of a society, and for a society to be happy and healthy, individuals must be allowed to pursue happiness.

Answer 5

nope. how can two people who love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together be a threat to anything?

that said, i don't think divorce is a threat to a successful society either. people get divorced all the time and society hasn't crumbled so far.

wait--did someone up there say the purpose of marriage is to reproduce? so, if i can't have kids because i had cancer, i should never be allowed to marry? uh oh, better warn my husband we're going to hell because i can't have kids.

Answer 6

No it isn't. Before same-sex marriage was ever a possibility, society's high regard for marriage had to be weakened by the proliferation of divorce. And if we started over again, the divorce would come first again, not homosex marriage.

Whatever they say about tolerance, the huge majority of people inwardly can't stand the idea of gay marriage -- it simply makes you cringe, the first time you consider it -- UNTIL they have learned to view marriage as a tool of pure convenience and a package of "benefits" which, out of a sense of fairness, they don't want to deny to homosexual couples. That view of marriage did not exist before legislation and judication gradually expanded divorce to give that very convenience to married people.

Besides that, how many people are gay? Like, 3-5% or so, and counting... Yes, gayness is becoming more popular, as every person over 20 knows; yes, it is absolutely a conditioned and learned state of mind, the same as straight sex addiction; but will it ever become universal? Probably not, because it just doesn't work out physiologically. As pleasureable as it (and every other sexual deviation) might be, you just can't have children through homosexuality. So, keeping in mind that homosexuality will undoubtedly always be a minority status, then according to sheer numbers, free divorce causes incredibly more broken homes than gay marriage ever will.

That homosex marriage is often viewed with such suspicion when other marriage abuses are often ignored is just another of society's double-standards. If we were honest, we would first be trying to pass a pro-marriage constitutional amendment, and afterwards, perhaps an anti-gay marriage one.

Answer 7

There will always be Gay people and there will always be divorce as long as their is marriage. The real problem is that we have religious people trying to tell everyone els how to live . There is no reason for anyone to buy into the biggoted moral structure of christians, they are worse than the most flaming gay person that ever hit the streets. Society has alot more to worry about than the love lives of private people.

Answer 8

Although I see the moral issue, same sex marriage isn't destroying society anymore than anything else. It's been going on in Canada for several years now, and guess what, we still have a crime rate that's less than half the US. Murder is even lower!

Answer 9

There is only one threat in the fabric of a successful society and it is picking at other people's threads.

(sorry couldn't help but make a joke)

Answer 10

Divorce is sad and not good for kids. Same sex marriage.... nothing wrong with that since gay people don't pick who they like. If two people love each other they should have the same rights as any other consulting adult.

So same sex marriage is not a threat at all. Divorce is not either if they dont have kids. If they do it is.