<p>I think personally having Gay parents would make a kids social life h***. I know for a fact, everyone would look down on them, laugh, be grossed out etc. I know it’s not the proper reaction but i’m sure it would happen.</p>
<p>so it would be better to save them the pain of humiliation completely.</p>
<p>“a baby should have a mother and a father. Having two momies or two daddies can confuse them.”</p>
<p>Any evidence for these claims? There are tons of studies that show the complete opposite of what you’re claiming.</p>
<p>" I’m just saying it’s not right and if I were a priest, I would never agree to it; but that’s me."</p>
<p>Yes, you’ve provided a conclusion. Yet you have no justifications for your conclusion. Is homosexuality wrong because it’s unnatural? That’s a pretty weak justification. Natrual law theory is a very weak ethical theory.</p>
<p>So let’s consider…a) you’re adopted by a married heterosexual couple. Then, according to U.S. Census that over 60% of people get divorced, the child will be torn between legal battles as the parents wrestle over him, one moves far away and rarely sees them, and hears one talking trash to the other. </p>
<p>or b)the child is adopted by a gay couple, and by the time he is 8 or 9 (when he would full understand his family situation), he is still in a loving family, a family still teaching him the same morals of do the right thing, help others, and one more: accept everyone (the one belief that you guys are neglecting). They will most definitely still be married, because census data also points that homosexual partners that adopt have a ‘divorce rate’ of 18%, vastly lower than 65%.</p>
<p>statistics can vary greatly from time to time. But nevertheless, there is still a divorce rate amoung homosexuals. So the problem exists in both situations. You must put into consideration that not all heterosexual couples who get divorce have kids.
I just don’t think that it’s a good environment for a child to be brought up in. Yes, divorce of a heterosexual couple can have emotional damage on a child, but most of them learn to cope with it later in life.</p>
<p>Your opinion has no justifications (or at least you haven’t presented any) so it doesn’t really mean anything at all. It’s just an empty claim.</p>
<p>Hey, I grew up with basically no dad, and I turned out okay.</p>
<p>See, here’s the thing. You think growing up with two daddies or two mommies is gonna harm the child, because you’ve only experienced life with one father and one mother. However, if you are a child of a homosexual family, growing up with two people of the same sex is completely normal.</p>
<p>It’s like the boy who was born with no arms. Later in life, in a news story documenting his success, he was asked what it was like not having arms. He said his life is completely normal: he never had arms, so he never experienced the loss. </p>
<p>It’s all in the environment you grow up in.</p>
<p>A physical deformity and having two parents of the same sex are two completely different things.
A child brought up in a setting where there are no women (or men) would mosr definately feel alienated from society because the majority of people still engage in heterosexual relationships. If a child feels in any way different from his/her friends and feels like an outsider because his/her family is not like the rest of people’s families, I’m sure that that could come some sort of psychological trauma.</p>
<p>Look, I’ll always think of homosexuality as a mental illness.(Regardless of what the AMA says). I don’t mean that they should all be locked up in a mental institution or anything. I’m saying that people who are attracted to the same sex were probably put through unfortunate events during childhood which had an everlasting effect on them.
For example, if a person grew up without one parent, it would be expected (yet not in all cases of course) that that child would show some attraction towards the same sex due to the absence of that in his/her childhood. Again, this wouldn’t happen in all cases; it’s just more likely in that sort of setting. </p>
<p>I don’t think of it as a personal preferance, you can’t just prefer one over the other unless there is some kind of driving force that makes a person more inclined to be attracted to one rather than the other.
Each of us has a different point of view and thus see things in different prespectives.</p>
<p>“A child brought up in a setting where there are no women (or men) would mosr definately feel alienated from society because the majority of people still engage in heterosexual relationships. If a child feels in any way different from his/her friends and feels like an outsider because his/her family is not like the rest of people’s families, I’m sure that that could come some sort of psychological trauma.”</p>
<p>Um… just because you have two dads doesn’t mean there won’t be any women in your life.</p>
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<p>And what about a child who grows up with just a single parent? One mother? What about if a child is orphaned is raised by two sisters? Surely then you’re not going to make that same claim, because it doesn’t exist in the real world.</p>
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<p>He would only feel like an outsider if people like you continually drilled it into his mind that he was and outsider. See, he wouldn’t feel different at all if everyone just accepted it. Something you are evidently not willing to do.</p>
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<p>ANy proof to that? We live in a world where science is key…and without any evidence of that (which there is none , the argument doesn’t work.</p>
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<p>Boy…that is not true at all. Where did you get that information? Just becuase you might think it could be a possibility certianly doesn’t make it so. I would say that claim is outrageous and morally objectionable to people raised in that situation. </p>
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<p>Really? You can’t just choose one over the other? So doesn’t that mean we can’t just choose to be with the opposite sex? So I guess, according to you, we are all gay and heterosexual at the same time. Fine with me…but I know that isn’t fine with you.</p>
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Everything I said happens in certain cases! Not with everyone in that situation!.
And no way is everyone going to accept the concept of homosexuality. Some, like yourself, will. But there are many conservatives who, although have no trouble dealing with gays in the workplace, may not accept it or may not think of it as something natural.
If it’s so natural, then why doesn’t everyone just have sex with their same sex friends? Why were two sexes put on Earth? If people just had sex with the same sex, eventually the human race would die out. Gay people can’t have kids naturally.
And I can tell you for a fact that (some) people raised without one parent present tend to show some kind of attraction towards the same sex (assuming that the absent parent is of the same sex of course).</p>
<p>I meant, that (hetero) people do not choose to be attracted to women. They are just born that way. Gay people are also born (or become that way due to a traumtic experince). No one chooses to be attracted to the same sex.</p>
<p>why exactly would a traumatic experience make you go gay?</p>
<p>Well of course everyting happens in certain situations. But you keep making a claim that these are the definitive reasons why gay people exist. Frankly…who cares why people are gay and why they aren’t? They are gay. End of story. It doesn’t matter what the prequal of the situation is. </p>
<p>And fraknly, I guess I don’t care that many people won’t be as open-minded as others, and will continally look down on gays as if they were some diseased individual. I guess I don’t care that some of these people won’t even be in the same room because they are afraid they will ‘catch’ this disease.</p>
<p>But what I do care about is that these same people prevent homosexuals from obtaining the same rights that everyone else does in the U.S. </p>
<p>We are suppose to be the most advanced country in the world, technologically and culturally. But we still don’t give everyone the same rights, we still carry on the death penalty (which no other modern country does…it’s the kinda thing Iraq does), and we still call people who are different ‘sick’ or ‘mentally ill’.</p>
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<p>certain traumatic experiences may have that effect. Like say for example a person is molested by someone of the same sex. It would be expected that that person be inclined to be attracted to a person of the same sex as he/she. Again, this may not happen in all cases. Some people get over things like this (even if it does take a lifetime)</p>
<p>until everyone on earth decides that being gay is normal, they won’t get the same rights as straight people. end of story.</p>
<p>On a not so related note:
The death penalty is usefull for one reason, and one reason only.
It would cost a hell of alot less to just put them to sleep rather than keep them alive for 20 - 30 years…</p>
<p>Not true, it costs a lot more to put someone to death than to keep them in prison for life</p>
<p>here’s one (of many) studies on the death penalty’s costliness/
ineffectiveness
<a href=“http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us/orea/reports/deathpenalty.pdf[/url]”>http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us/orea/reports/deathpenalty.pdf</a></p>
<p>^ I was just going to say the same thing Drew00, thanks.</p>
<p>Guys guys come on</p>
<p>come on</p>
<p>when you get down it it…</p>
<p>it’s just wRONG</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with being gay. PERIOD</p>
<p>I’m not gay, but I accept those who are.</p>
<p>Also, gay people are really nice and sweet. Maybe if you stopped judging them and start accepting, then you can truly realize their awesomeness.</p>