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These 12 kids include 6 siblings. Do you know how hard it is to place 6 children together? This family assures this group of 6 siblings remains together. And it would be better if they were still in foster care? Or were split up?
And the parents aren't married (because the state of Arizona won't allow them to get married). Well, so much for the incessant "Marriage promotes stability and is thus good for children!" claim of the self-styled 'pro marriage' folks.
Banning same-sex marriage doesn't prevent gay couples from raising children. It only prevents those children being raised by gay couples from enjoying whatever benefits ensue from marriage.
Personally, I don't have a problem with giving gay couples foster children, but it should be a last resort.
The SCOTUS already did that with Lawrence v. Texas. Homosexual sex within the boundaries of all 50 states is constitutionally protected. And, I expect they will uphold the lower courts ruling on Prop 8, which will have the added benefit of making same sex marriage constitutionally protected in all 50 states.
And I await that day with great anticipation.
Not because it impacts me, I am a heterosexual happily married male, SSM will not affect my life in any way. But I do so look forward to seeing the heads of those amongst us who would have their religious rules embodied into law explode when the thing they hate the most becomes the law of the land.
SCOTUS cannot legitimize anything in society. It can only make it legal. There's a difference between what the law will allow and what the people who make up society will allow. North Carolina told homosexuals yesterday that it will not give legitimacy to perversion.
But if they take the case, and if they find same sex marriage to be a fundamental constitutional right as the lower court did, that decision, like Lawrence, will apply nationwide.
True, they could do that.
But they'll probably just kick the can down the road by either not bothering with the case, or just affirming the Ninth's ruling.
Humans for centuries have known for centuries that homosexual perversions are antithetical to all that is right, natural, and just.
Substitute "the right of women to vote" or "the right of negros to freedom" for "homosexual perversions" in the above statement, and you're repeating words that were spoken in past great debates.
Have anything fact based proving same sex 'parents' are harmful to a child's development?
In case you haven't noticed there are many opposite sex marriages that maintain horrible environments to raise children. Why aren't the self-Righteous so hell-bent on banning same sex marriage equally enthusiastic about preventing that situation?
If you compare homosexual parentage to dysfunctional heterosexual parentage you are hurting your argument.
SCOTUS cannot legitimize anything in society. It can only make it legal. There's a difference between what the law will allow and what the people who make up society will allow. North Carolina told homosexuals yesterday that it will not give legitimacy to perversion.
If SCOTUS rules as I hope they will, North Carolina will have zero choice in the matter. At that point, the only option they have is to get an Amendment to the US Constitution passed that overrules the ruling. Good luck with that.
Personally, I don't have a problem with giving gay couples foster children, but it should be a last resort.
If it should be a 'last resort', clearly you have problems with it.
So are gay parents fit to raise children, or not?
Had there been six opposite-sex couples waiting to adopt those six siblings, should they have all been separated from each other instead of being allowed to stay together with gay parents?
There are always more children than there are homes.
So does divorce (if the custodial parent chooses not to re-marry and there isn't much interaction with the other parent, as is often the case). So does adoption by a single parent. Let me assure you, all two parent homes are not the bed of roses you seem to believe they are. There are plenty of people who grow up with two parents of the opposite sex, but the environment is abusive and toxic. Creating a nurturing and healthy environment for a child is just not as simple as making sure there's a mom and a dad in the house.
I never said that all two parent households are a bed of roses and yes, I agree, homosexual parentage is better than getting beaten by an abusive parent every night.
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