Drop Your Gay Card (Gay Marriage)

Member Name: Peakly

Product:	Gay Marriage
Date:	22/02/03 (243 review reads)
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Oh of course. What a silly question. The basis for any objection to Gay marriage and adoption can only be the misapprehension that, somehow, Gay relationships lack the love and security of Heterosexual relationships. Either that, or the believe that homosexuality is somehow ‘unnatural’, which, no matter how you disguise it, means you’re homophobic and not particularly useful. A relationship needs love, honesty and commitment, whether that’s between two people with different bits between their clothes-pegs or the same. Why should any two people in love be denied the opportunity to declare it, both in the eyes of the law and the eyes of other people they love? The answer is they should not. It simply isn’t fair.

The reason there aren’t Gay men and women strolling happily up the alter today is that the dominant heterosexual majority still aren’t comfortable with the idea, which was exactly the reason why black people once weren’t allowed to mingle with white folk and why women once weren’t allowed to vote. In time enough this ‘debate’ will be deemed equally farcical and ignorant by generations that exceed us. There is still enough narrow-mindedness and religious fundamentalism to prevent this long over-due liberalisation, but as the human race evolves and grows up such restaining factors will erode and a brighter day will dawn – I for one quite fancy being around to see it.

But of course there are the children. The precious, vulnerable little children. To give a child to a Gay couple would surely expose them to unnatural perversion too early in their life’s. Far better they stay in orphanages, or be given to any available straight couple.

Please. What a child needs is to be brought up in a stable and loving home provided by a stable, loving couple – whether or not that couple befit the traditional picture or Husband and Wife, Mother and Father i
s irrelevant. I hate to break it to you, but the state of the world is thus people: there are too many children, and not enough love to go around them. How can we possibly narrow the chances of our little dudes experiencing a safe, loving environment with laws based on status-quo and, to be bold, blind and dated prejudice? A same-sex couple is not an unhealthy or abnormal example to set a new person as they embark in this world, because the world is made up of same-sex couples and heterosexual couples alike (whether you like it or not). What is unhealthy, and abnormal, is to set an example of instability, misery or neglect - something occurring in ‘normal’ families everywhere, every day. There is no truth in saying gay couples are better equipped to raise children then straight, just as there is no truth in presuming they are any less capable. But at least by widdening the playing-field and accepting homosexuality to be more then a ‘fetish’ or a perversion, by recognising the capacity for love and value in homosexual relationships and seeing what they can offer a child, at least by doing that then the chances of our neglected youth finding happiness will grow. What is wrong with that.

Anyone against gay couples raising children should ask themselves a simple question – what exactly are you afraid of? I suspect, though I can’t be sure, that it’s that the child will grow up to be Gay as well. An argument that rather dissolves into it’s self, don’t you think?

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