Kyronea
11-03-2006, 20:20
I'm, as many of you know, an Independent leaning towards conservative. I'm also highly in favor of giving homosexuals the same rights towards marriage and all that as everyone else. Why? Simple.
1. There is no proof that homosexuality is a disease or a psychological condition; on the contrary, we have plenty of it in nature as well. Thus, for you Bible/Torah/Quoran/other holy book thumpers, surely God/Allah/Goddess/The Gods/etc have no problem with it, if nature--their design according to your religion, after all--is chock full of it.
2. There is no proof that homosexuals are any different from anyone else; on the contrary, homosexuals are JUST like everyone else. If anything, there are more heterosexual child molesters than there are homosexual child molesters...though this is more likely due to the fact that there tend to be more heterosexuals than homosexuals than anything else. You religious dudes? Try making some gay/lesbian/bisexual friends. You might be pleasantly surprised.
3. There is no proof that children raised by homosexual parents would turn out homosexual; on the contrary, there have been numerous studies on older children raised by lesbian and gay couples that show statistically, the chances for someone to turn out homosexual or heterosexual are the same regardless of who the parent(s)/guardian(s) are. Obviously not all kids raised by heterosexual couples turn out heterosexual; otherwise we wouldn't have any homosexuals, as only technology has given us the ability to allow a homosexual couple to have children, typically through artificial insemination.
4. There is no proof that children require a mommy and a daddy to be raised properly; in fact, those who believe that the cause of crime and whatnot are related to having only one parent or no parents at all are wrong on the whole. It is in reality more due to bad parenting, poverty, authoritarian parenting, and that sort of stuff. I've met some single parents myself: most of them were great people, and their kids equally so. As such, a homosexual couple is not going to have any negative effect on their kids just because they are homosexual: it is the quality of the person, NOT their sexual orientation, that will determine their quality of parenting and thusly how they raise their kids.
5. Society is not a theocracy(With exceptions, such as Iran, but I'm talking in general here.). That's right, religious peeps: believe what you want, but fact is, you can't force that belief upon us. Further, most of you need to understand that the belief is founded in old, ooooold traditions regarding raising kids and whatnot: families were necessary to hold onto territory, especially in the era of feudal systems, and a homosexual in those days couldn't raise a family except via adoption, and as adoption didn't really occur all that often either...I think you see where I'm going. Fact is, that belief is not only idiotic, but it contradicts many other facets of your religion. After all, the diety of your choice supposedly created Earth and nature and the like, right? So if that's true, and homosexuality is also wrong: WHY IS THERE HOMOSEXUALITY IN NATURE? There is no answer to that question. Either your belief that homosexuality is wrong is incorrect, the belief that your diety created Earth is incorrect, or your entire religion is incorrect. Personally I lean towards the third option, but that's just little old athiest me.
6. There is only one secular, and thus, only one really valid reason for not legalizing gay marriage and the like...and it's really not a good reason at that either: "Why should we?" Well, Mr. Bob or whoever came up with this, I've given you the reasons. Not convinced? Too bad.
Let's face it gang: homosexuals, they deserve real rights just like everyone else. Right-wingers need to realize that: if their religious, they need to set their holy book aside. If they simply feel it is wrong, for whatever reason, they need to set that belief aside to, as it is not up to them to force that belief upon others. I'm a right-winged athiest who believes in homosexual rights. It's about time I became merely part of the whole, rather than just a stand-out.
1. There is no proof that homosexuality is a disease or a psychological condition; on the contrary, we have plenty of it in nature as well. Thus, for you Bible/Torah/Quoran/other holy book thumpers, surely God/Allah/Goddess/The Gods/etc have no problem with it, if nature--their design according to your religion, after all--is chock full of it.
2. There is no proof that homosexuals are any different from anyone else; on the contrary, homosexuals are JUST like everyone else. If anything, there are more heterosexual child molesters than there are homosexual child molesters...though this is more likely due to the fact that there tend to be more heterosexuals than homosexuals than anything else. You religious dudes? Try making some gay/lesbian/bisexual friends. You might be pleasantly surprised.
3. There is no proof that children raised by homosexual parents would turn out homosexual; on the contrary, there have been numerous studies on older children raised by lesbian and gay couples that show statistically, the chances for someone to turn out homosexual or heterosexual are the same regardless of who the parent(s)/guardian(s) are. Obviously not all kids raised by heterosexual couples turn out heterosexual; otherwise we wouldn't have any homosexuals, as only technology has given us the ability to allow a homosexual couple to have children, typically through artificial insemination.
4. There is no proof that children require a mommy and a daddy to be raised properly; in fact, those who believe that the cause of crime and whatnot are related to having only one parent or no parents at all are wrong on the whole. It is in reality more due to bad parenting, poverty, authoritarian parenting, and that sort of stuff. I've met some single parents myself: most of them were great people, and their kids equally so. As such, a homosexual couple is not going to have any negative effect on their kids just because they are homosexual: it is the quality of the person, NOT their sexual orientation, that will determine their quality of parenting and thusly how they raise their kids.
5. Society is not a theocracy(With exceptions, such as Iran, but I'm talking in general here.). That's right, religious peeps: believe what you want, but fact is, you can't force that belief upon us. Further, most of you need to understand that the belief is founded in old, ooooold traditions regarding raising kids and whatnot: families were necessary to hold onto territory, especially in the era of feudal systems, and a homosexual in those days couldn't raise a family except via adoption, and as adoption didn't really occur all that often either...I think you see where I'm going. Fact is, that belief is not only idiotic, but it contradicts many other facets of your religion. After all, the diety of your choice supposedly created Earth and nature and the like, right? So if that's true, and homosexuality is also wrong: WHY IS THERE HOMOSEXUALITY IN NATURE? There is no answer to that question. Either your belief that homosexuality is wrong is incorrect, the belief that your diety created Earth is incorrect, or your entire religion is incorrect. Personally I lean towards the third option, but that's just little old athiest me.
6. There is only one secular, and thus, only one really valid reason for not legalizing gay marriage and the like...and it's really not a good reason at that either: "Why should we?" Well, Mr. Bob or whoever came up with this, I've given you the reasons. Not convinced? Too bad.
Let's face it gang: homosexuals, they deserve real rights just like everyone else. Right-wingers need to realize that: if their religious, they need to set their holy book aside. If they simply feel it is wrong, for whatever reason, they need to set that belief aside to, as it is not up to them to force that belief upon others. I'm a right-winged athiest who believes in homosexual rights. It's about time I became merely part of the whole, rather than just a stand-out.