How is marriage about procreation? Nowhere when getting married do you promise to procreate. You promise to be with that person forever and to love them, whether you procreate or not.
I personally do not plan to get married for the purpose of procreating. If I get married, its because I love that person. If I have kids, kewl, if I do not, no biggie. To me children has nothing to do with the act of getting married. Do I think kids are better off with stable mother + father relationship? Of course. But society allows people to have kids without being married, and for kids to be raised by one parent. Marriage has nothing to do with it.
But in a way you are equating them, as if being Gay or having Gay marriage causes society some harm. Does it?
Economically, no. More people married = more couples compiling their wealth and buying shit to live better. In fact, it helps the economy. Why else would married couples get tax benefits? Because the state wants people to be married because it gets them to spend money and turn the economy.
What else does gay marriage do to hurt society? Does it somehow teach kids to become more/less gay? No, this is not even physically or biologically possible. You are born destined to become straight or not. Even studies on separated identical twins show that many of them ended up in the same occupation and married people with the same name. Guess what? You are hardwired from birth to love certain people, male or female. That cannot be changed, whether you learn that so called 'gay' people exist or not. Teaching your kids about gay people will not make them gay. So no, this does not 'harm' society either [this is assuming that being gay is a problem in the first place, which it is not].
Would kids raised under gays be worse off than kids raised by man+woman? Studies show no real difference by adopted children under gay parents, and we allow in society kids to be raised by single parents, so this cannot be a harm either.
So what are you getting at? How exactly does gay marriage itself, by itself, harm society? If you want to claim it is a slippery slope to other things, then there must be something wrong with the core principle of the issue (ex: being against wire tapping out of principle that it can lead to other forms of spying [not to spark a debate here but trying to clarify what I mean by principle]). So what do you feel is wrong with the principle of gay marriage?
I personally do not plan to get married for the purpose of procreating. If I get married, its because I love that person. If I have kids, kewl, if I do not, no biggie. To me children has nothing to do with the act of getting married. Do I think kids are better off with stable mother + father relationship? Of course. But society allows people to have kids without being married, and for kids to be raised by one parent. Marriage has nothing to do with it.
I wouldn't deny that. Some people are very prone to violence, murder, and any other number of anti-social behaviors. Shall we allow those too because it's 'how they were born'? Of course we don't. Every person has objective morality placed into them (we all would agree that murder is wrong, that hitting a baby is also bad no matter the culture). This helps provide the litmus test in our minds to decide what's good and what's not.
Now before you quote me again out of context let me clearly say I am not equating gay with murder, I'm just using a strong analogous argument. The same thing could be said of left-handed people or gingers but it doesn't carry a negative impact like extremely anti-social behavior does.
But in a way you are equating them, as if being Gay or having Gay marriage causes society some harm. Does it?
Economically, no. More people married = more couples compiling their wealth and buying shit to live better. In fact, it helps the economy. Why else would married couples get tax benefits? Because the state wants people to be married because it gets them to spend money and turn the economy.
What else does gay marriage do to hurt society? Does it somehow teach kids to become more/less gay? No, this is not even physically or biologically possible. You are born destined to become straight or not. Even studies on separated identical twins show that many of them ended up in the same occupation and married people with the same name. Guess what? You are hardwired from birth to love certain people, male or female. That cannot be changed, whether you learn that so called 'gay' people exist or not. Teaching your kids about gay people will not make them gay. So no, this does not 'harm' society either [this is assuming that being gay is a problem in the first place, which it is not].
Would kids raised under gays be worse off than kids raised by man+woman? Studies show no real difference by adopted children under gay parents, and we allow in society kids to be raised by single parents, so this cannot be a harm either.
So what are you getting at? How exactly does gay marriage itself, by itself, harm society? If you want to claim it is a slippery slope to other things, then there must be something wrong with the core principle of the issue (ex: being against wire tapping out of principle that it can lead to other forms of spying [not to spark a debate here but trying to clarify what I mean by principle]). So what do you feel is wrong with the principle of gay marriage?
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