How can Christians have the balls to say...?

Question

that homosexuals are unfit parents. Studies show that kids who grow up with gay parents are not statistically more likely to be gay than kids with straight parents. Studies also show that kids who grow up with gay parents are not statistically more likely to suffer from mental disorders like depression and anxiety. Every study ever conducted by reliable sources, AKA scientists, not the church, has shown that kids with gay parents grow up to be perfectly normal. The only argument Christians have is that it is immoral. It can't be any more immoral that all these unfit straight couples who have kids and then get divorced after having kids.

See. The first answer was that Homosexuals are immoral. He has no evidence to back up his claim. He just quotes the Bible to justify his hate.

Ok Christians. You keeps saying the studys I quote are unreliable. Where is your studies???

I don't know were you got your statistics from, but according the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, gays are not more likely to molest kids. Sorry you can't fool me. I actually look stuff up.

Answer 1

OH MY GOD... Stop with the generalizing! I am a Christian and I say- as long as you want the child, have the means to take care of the child, you should be able to have/adopt a child. Who cares if the parents are gay, straight or single? If they want to take care of a child and can save a child from the system what is the problem!?

Answer 2

I don't think I'd go so far as to say unfit. My opinion on parenting, that applies to more issues than just gay parents, is that the ideal situation for a child to be raised in has both a mother and a father present. Each gender has different elements that it brings to the child rearing table. There are very few of these ideal family settings left with all the divorce and remarriage, single moms, etc.

I want to adopt, and many people say that I should, but I'm not married yet, so I choose to not adopt because I don't want to willfully bring a child into a non-ideal setting. I would love to have a kid, but I feel that it is not in his/her best interest to be raise only by a mom.

Obviously there are exceptions to all this, sometimes a child is in a bad situation and anything would be better.

Answer 3

It's worse than you think. Not only are they ignoring studies, they are suppressing them. More studies are obviously needed, but all the data to date shows there are NO differences.

Check out this news story. Not only does it say that there is no difference, it says some of the studies this study referenced actually showed children did BETTER in a home with gay parents!

Of course, I see some of the "good Christians" here have dismissed all studies as being conducted by gay people... yup, it's a conspiracy! All the gays in the world are in on it! Because that's definitely more likely than you simply being wrong.

LOL! Way to be "moral!"



Suppressed Study Shows No Difference Between Same And Opposite-Sex Parents

Posted: May 7, 2007 - 5:00 pm ET

(Ottawa) A study prepared for the Canadian government shows children do as well, perhaps better, when reared by same-sex parents as they do by opposite-sex couples.

The study has just now become public even though it was commissioned by the government in 2003 leading to accusations that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper attempted to burry the research.

When the study was ordered the Liberals were in power and courts across the country were beginning to strike down federal restrictions limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples.

The Liberals went on to legalize same-sex marriage in 2005. The party was defeated the following year by the Tories who promised to revisit the vote.

The study on child rearing was not complete until after the Conservatives came to power.

Last December a motion to reopen the gay marriage issue was defeated by Parliament. During the debate no mention was made of the study, by Prof. Paul Hastings at Concordia University, but Harper's Tories cited a French study that said same-sex parenting was not in the best interests of children.

The study only came to light when Hastings used freedom of information laws to obtain a copy which he provided to the Canwest News Service.

The 74-page study references about 100 studies on parenting. It says that although most of the literature study was empirical, the vast majority of studies show that children living with two mothers and children living with a mother and father have the same levels and qualities of social competence.

"A few studies suggest that children with two lesbian mothers may have marginally better social competence than children in 'traditional nuclear' families, even fewer studies show the opposite, and most studies fail to find any differences," the study says.

It also notes there is still too little research on gay male parents.

Canwest also found, using freedom of information laws, that after Hastings had obtained the government copy of his research that the Tories had prepared "talking points" on the study should the issue come up in Parliament.

Answer 4

Hold on there. Sorry, you do not have your figures right. Go to the United States dept of Statistics and you will find the newest ones posted within this past month:

This is the truth:

1. A gay person is 300% more likely to sexually abuse (have sexual contact with) a
child of their own gender.

2. A gay man will die 20-25 years earlier than a normal man.
3. A gay woman will die 18-22 years earlier than a normal woman.

These statistics are not done by Christian groups. They are not done by moral groups.
They are done without bias by the Government.

These do not settle well with regard to adopting children. Rape them and then die early leaving them without support and to be a ward of the state, where they can get put into multiple foster homes and be raped again and again and again.
Thats just great.
Gay people are the most selfish people who live on this planet. They care only about themselves and that tickle in their pants that they have no self-control over, no self-disipline over, no self respect to handle.
They don't give a **** about the children;
they only want to adopt to justify their giving something to society, and they need to carry on the gay lifestyle, because obviously they cannot do it.
Lets not forget that being gay means you just took that circle of life, and rearranged it into a straight line. A line that ends.
No, you could give a **** about those kids.
This is all just to justify your perverted minds. You want your disgusting acts justified. You want your disgusting acts legalized. You want your disgusting acts validated.
The truth is that you do deserve respect as human beings, and you deserve help.
You should have all the treatment and councilling you require at 100% paid, no matter what it takes. And, until you have completed treatment, you should not be allowed to vote or make any other important decisions, because obviously you are not competent (at this time) to make decisions. Lets face it: you are not competent to even choose a healthy mate.
When that little tickle in your drawers can be made, thru counciling and treatment, to stop ruling your lives and making your decisions for you, then you can be re-evaluated and a decision can be made by a specialist as to whether you are competent to rejoin society.

Until then, of course you should have love, respect, care, and help. We give that to our cancer patients, and you certainly deserve it, too.

Answer 5

I have no doubt that gay people are very loving parents. I think one of the arguments is probably over having both a mother and a father figure. That would be my guess.

Answer 6

And gay people don't split up or cheat on eachother? There hasn't been enough study in this area so I wouldn't be quoting stats from either side. I will not apologize for my stance against the homosexual lifestyle (surprise surprise, it's not for religious reasons!) but I will not condemn someone who is trying to raise his/her 'own' child the best they can not matter what the orientation is. Do me a favour and don't paint heterosexual couples with such a broad brush just to further your argument.

Peace

Answer 7

Two wrongs don't make a right. By comparing gay parents to unfit parents who have kids and then get divorced you are putting the bar really really low for gay people.

Answer 8

I agree with you 100%.

There is nothing to say that gay parents will raise worse kids than straight parents.

And then there are those who say, kids need a male and female role model (or something like that).......what about all these kids growing up in single parent homes? Should their kids be taken away too?

While I don't think all christians think like this, the church and its doctrine do. Its the dogma/doctrine I have a problem with.

Answer 9

While this is a bit too combatative for my liking, you have a point. What about the Millions of unfit parents who have kid after kid they can't or won't care for? No one has any problem with a brood of children, living in trailer park, getting beaten or neglected. No, boys kissing boys is much more wrong.

Answer 10

You make a good point if the stats you quote are accurate. But parents teach more by example. This is why I wouldn't want a bank robber to raise a child.