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I started with a simple question, "Why should government recognize marriage at all?" If it is a discriminatory institution, why have it at all? My answer to this was "it is in society’s (and government’s) best interest to preserve itself by promoting institutions that protect, nurture, and prepare children to be the next generation of society", and I indicated that marriage is the primary institution for doing so. I then pointed out that societies almost universally seem to understand this, which is why adoption and foster families are the preferred solution for children who have lost their parents. I then used Kiernan's model of the four societal stages of modern societies to show the trends as to what is happening to marriage, families, and children on the macro scale. I cited several studies that have overwhelmingly shown this separation of parenting from marriage is bad for kids in multiple ways. Finally, I tied this into gay marriage by examining the effects of legalized gay marriage in Scandinavia. I discussed briefly how these countries are the furthest along the stages of Kiernan's model, and how researchers believe that “gay marriage is both an effect and a reinforcing cause of the separation of marriage and parenthood." So there is your Cliff Notes version of my earlier, long-winded posts. |
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Why would anyone want to deny a child growing up in a home without both a father and a mother?
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Heterosexual marriage doesn't promise that at all.
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No, it doesn't. But there is more of a chance for it in a heterosexual marriage than a homosexual marriage. There is zero chance of that in a same-sex marriage.
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Technically, John Stamos and Bob Sagat tried it and failed miserably. No child should be subjected to that crap.
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I'm not saying that it is bad to have two loving moms or dads. The few gay men that I know and have talked to about this have told me that they cherish the relationship with their mother. With that in mind, I wondered why they would want to deny a child a home without a mother.
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