I (and others before me) thought the American gay marriage debate through a few years ago, and it seems like there's a simple enough solution.
The biggest complaint opponents have is that gay marriage goes against their religion. Church and state in the US are supposed to be separate. So, the state should stop "marrying" people and grant nothing but civil unions, to hetero-and-homosexual couples. The civil union would affect all the relevant laws. Marriages would be performed only by churches, at the church's discretion. They would no longer influence the law. Previous marriages would be grandfathered in. I'm sure it would be fairly common for a couple to have a traditional church wedding, but they would also have to go through the union process at the courthouse if they wanted to be legally recognized.
If that happens, nobody can really complain. Everybody's problems are solved.
Originally Posted by
hydrotoxin
No for marriage and no for adoption.
Marriage: they can't procreate, so they are of no use. While they are capable of being functioning members of society, they serve absolutely no purpose in furthering it in any way, so I see no reason to support it.
Is procreation people's only use? Is that our goal, do we measure our success by how many kids we have? I'm pretty sure we have more children than necessary in the world, ideally we would let gays adopt someone and give them a chance to grow up (and procreate).
Originally Posted by
hydrotoxin
Adoption: the child would be ridiculed to no end, and may very well end up hating his adoptive parent due to the endless torment by his peers. In addition, the child may end up being gay himself (unless they've finally proven homosexuality is a genetic defect), which would perpetuate a pointless cycle.
I know people with gay parents, and they're not ridiculed to no end. You can be the target of ridicule for anything. Should we not let fat people have kids because people will make fun of their "fat momma?"
Also, I'm pretty sure having straight parents won't keep you from becoming gay. I mean, how many fundamentalist Christians have been caught in gay sex scandals?
Last edited by SmileyJones; Dec 5, 2009 at 09:11 PM.