At 2/9/05 06:42 AM, ReiperX wrote:
Can you post some legit reasons why homosexuals should not have the right to be married other than it is tradition?
Sure!
A study in the journal AIDS reported that in Holland, where “gay marriage” has been legal since 2001, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are soaring among homosexual men.
The study notes that “partnered” homosexuals have “outside” lovers, although fewer than the “unpartnered,” and that men in these relationships are still contracting the AIDS virus at alarming rates. This is progress?
As for the moral argument, it’s easy to make to those who have not shut their ears to self-evident truth. But even if marriage were not created by God Himself as the fountainhead of human life, a powerful case can be made on purely sociological grounds. Sanctioning “gay marriage” would, among other things:
• Further weaken the family, the first and best defense against an ever-encroaching government.
• Encourage children to experiment with homosexuality. This will put more kids at risk for HIV, hepatitis A, B and C, “gay bowel syndrome,” human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases.
• Homosexual households are also more prone to domestic violence.
For example: “The incidence of domestic violence among gay men is nearly double that in the heterosexual population,” according to D. Island and P. Letellier in Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them (New York: Haworth Press, 1991).
• A study in the Journal of Social Service Research reported that “slightly more than half of the [lesbians surveyed] reported that they had been abused by a female lover/partner.” (G. Lie and S. Gentlewarrior, “Intimate Violence in Lesbian Relationships: Discussion of Survey Findings and Practice Implications,” No. 15, 1991.) More cites can be found in Tim Dailey, The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality, Insight paper, Family Research Council, 2001.
• Put more children at risk as adoption agencies abandon the crrent practice of favoring married households and begin placing more children in motherless or fatherless households.
• Encourage more people to remain trapped in homosexuality rather than seek to re-channel their desires toward normal sexuality.
• Pit the law and our government against the beliefs of tens of millions of people who believe homosexuality is wrong.
• Create grounds for further attacks on the freedoms of speech, religion and association.
Exhibit A:
California where “domestic partnerships” are part of an overall homosexual agenda. Golden State employers must subsidize homosexual relationships or give up state contracts. Employers must promote transsexuality as a civil right or risk a $150,000 fine.
All foster care parents must take “diversity” training that orders them to affirm a child’s sexual behavior, including “cross-dressing.”
If you’re a Californian who believes in traditional morality, your government regards you as an enemy of the state.
If “gay marriage” becomes legal nationally, all Americans will be subject to the tender mercies of pro-homosexual bureaucrats.
The new “McCarthyism”
Mr. Lindberg himself alludes to the fact that many people think homosexuality is wrong but are embarrassed to say so.
It’s not because of the “weakness of the argument” but rather the unceasing media campaign to portray anyone who disagrees with homosexual activism as a “homophobe” or a “hater.”
During the Vietnam War, liberals invoked the ghost of Joe McCarthy to silence anti-communist opinion.
Today, sexual libertines are using stigma to strangle honest discussion about homosexuality.
When the traditionalist Rev. Earle Fox was accorded three minutes for dissent at the consecration ceremony for New Hampshire’s homosexual Episcopal bishop V. Gene Robinson, the Rev. Fox began listing the practices in which homosexuals typically engage. “I wanted them to know what they were blessing in God’s name,” he said.
The chairman cut off the Rev. Fox in mid-presentation. Just as those who don’t “celebrate” homosexuality on Newgrounds are either flamed or banned.
Usually both.
Even a small sliver of truth is too much for those who pretend that homosexuality is normal and harmless.
Until the realities of homosexual behavior are examined publicly, Mr. Lindberg may be right that only moral arguments will carry any weight. But it’s not because the social arguments are weak; it is because the public is being kept in the dark about the real costs of homosexuality.
