I’m really unsure as to how you guys are going to respond. I think that you know…blah blah, everyone is equal, nothing’s wrong w/ being gay etc…
I know that gayness is nothing new and that it’s been happening forever and all that.
To what extent though, historically, have homosexual couples been allowed to raise children? Is there something about this lifestyle as it currently exists in America that would make you a little uneasy in knowing that kids were going to be raised in a house w/ same sex parents?
What about a little girl being raised by two men? Or vice versa?
Do you think this could lead to the kids having social problems?
Is it worth it to sacrifice normalcy in the lives of the kids for the sake of the parent’s right to live an unconventional lifestyle?
I have known gay men to marry lesbian women in order to have kids. And gays to marry straights for the same reason. And for straight couples to get divorced, and leave a single-parent home. That last one happens a lot. You may want to check the newspapers once in a while, Smears.
You don’t always have to bring your sensible nature to the debate man!!
I know you know that I’m looking for inflamatory responses so that I can argue with them. Be a good sport!!
I guess so. But I don’t think there’s a shortage of regular people who would be more than willing to take care of just about any child. We have a parent surplus and no good system to match them with kids. I suppose we might think to remove the kids from unconventional and possibly socially retarding situations and put them into normal ones.
But, like faust said, what is “normal”? How is it going to harm a child to have sexually diverse parents? I’ve seen this show called “true life” or something on MTV where it shows adopted adolescent children who grew up with gay parents from birth; they turned out peachy as well as straight.
Whateva, that’s an opinion. Homosexuality as “perverted” might deserve a far different outlook than you’d expect, such as baby booming and its consequences, or even genetics.
Just something to think about before you judge people and how they want to live their lives. Maybe criticizing sexual preference does more harm than the act itself. I mean, what harm is it even causing? Why is it perverted or abnormal? Because it’s unnatural? So is artificial flavoring, is that perverted or harmful? What if it’s not even unnatural? What if it naturally occurs under conditions that allow it? What if social populace or genetic progression are the cause? Smeeearsss!
Thanks Faust. You do realize that 99% of what happens on this site is just mental masturbation. If you don’t come out and say something highly irrational, no one responds.
It’s probably difficult enough to live the homosexual lifestyle in our society, many people will look at you as abnormal, why then would you share this difficult lifestyle with a child? It seems to me that it would be in the child’s interest to just be adopted by a straight couple.
Provoking question about “normalcy” Faust, but I would agree that a child being raised by gay parents is not normal. I’m not equating uncommon with morally wrong, but being raised by two parents of the same sex is certainly a different experience. One might then say that all childhoods are different, but I would think that being unable to identify with either a mother figure or a father figure would place the matter on a whole different level of different. I also wouldn’t call the question ‘gaybashing.’ The potential psychological ramifications of being raised by two males or two females within a society where nearly all children are raised by their biological parents certainly raises legitimate concerns. I would say the same about regular adoption in the sense that being raised by non-biological parents would also have ramifications, but I don’t think that adoption is a ‘bad’ thing.
