my views on gay marriage
first, nobody has the right to deny another of love, life, or the pursuit of happiness. i am gay, i have someone i love very much and i want to be with him for the rest of my life. now if i ask you, a typical straight person, does anyone have the right to tell you who you can love, or who you can be with? certainly not. and does anyone have the right to tell you whether or not you can spend your life with that person? again, no. and finally, does anyone have the right to tell you that you can't bind your lives together with legal and religious endorsement, i.e., marriage? no.
why then do people feel they have the right to say that two people of the same sex can't marry one another. not only do they feel they must push their noses where they don't belong for marriage, but they also feel it's up to them to determine what activities (gay sex) can happen with the closed doors of a gay couple's lives.
why, for an institution that is rife with failure, abuse, and infidelity, do people fight so hard against something that they feel is "morally wrong" and degenerate? for all of the marriages in the us, approximately half of them fail in short order. a few facts about this institution endorsed by religion if i may.
- divorce is the leading cause of childhood depression
- 75% of adolescents at chemical abuse centers are from single parent families
- every 78 seconds a child attempts suicide, every 90 seconds one succeeds
- 63% of youth suicides are single parent children
- 70% of teenage pregnancies are single parent children
- 75% of juveniles in youth correction facilities are from single parent families
Gay Marriage
- 1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
- 2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
- 3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
- 4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
- 5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
- 6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
- 7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
- 8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
- 9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
- 10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
[1] national institute of child health and human development.