Five reasons why gay marriage is a basic, conservative value

Originally posted by SedatedSon
reply to post by Annee

 

My wife has gay friends and they are nice people. They chose to be who they are and I respect that 100%, but that not mean I agree with them and as long as they keep there homosexual habits to themselves, I am fine with them. But marriage is pushing the issue on so many levels and that is why we are here discussing it. I do not believe it is right but that is just me

 

Originally posted by SedatedSon
reply to post by Beanskinner

 

Oh dad and dad, I want to be like you... (next morning at school) you should know where its going. you want a hint? It involves a downhill slope and tears.

Research has shown that in contrast to common beliefs, children of lesbian, gay, or transgender parents:

Are not more likely to be gay than children with heterosexual parents.
Are not more likely to be sexually abused.
Do not show differences in whether they think of themselves as male or female (gender identity).
Do not show differences in their male and female behaviors (gender role behavior).

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The gender identity of preadolescent children raised by lesbian mothers has been found consistently to be in line with their biological gender. None of >500 children studied have shown evidence of gender-identity confusion, wished to be the other gender, or consistently engaged in cross-gender behavior. No differences have been found in the toy, game, activity, dress, or friendship preferences of boys or girls who had lesbian mothers, compared with those who had heterosexual mothers.
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There is ample evidence to show that children raised by same-gender parents fare as well as those raised by heterosexual parents. More than 25 years of research have documented that there is no relationship between parents' sexual orientation and any measure of a child's emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment. These data have demonstrated no risk to children as a result of growing up in a family with 1 or more gay parents. Conscientious and nurturing adults, whether they are men or women, heterosexual or homosexual, can be excellent parents. The rights, benefits, and protections of civil marriage can further strengthen these families.
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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry seeks to dispel common misconceptions about children raised by gay parents. First, it says children of gay parents aren't more likely to be gay or more likely to be sexually abused than children of heterosexual parents. Additionally, children with gay parents and children with heterosexual parents show no differences in gender identity or gender role behaviors. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics says that grown children of gay parents might be more willing to consider having a same-sex partner, they aren't more likely to identify themselves as homosexual.

Sexual orientation of parents has no bearing on children's emotional, behavioral or psychosocial adjustment, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Because having gay parents poses no additional risks to children, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that any conscientious and nurturing adults, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, can make excellent parents and should receive equal benefits, rights and protections of civil marriage in order to bolster their strength as parents.
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In a finding that confronts deeply rooted beliefs about parenting, a new study concludes that parents' genders have little impact on children -- suggesting that same-sex couples are as effective at raising children as heterosexual couples.

On average, children succeed most when raised by two parents rather than one. The parents' genders, however, make little difference in terms of a child's development, according to a landmark study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
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Originally posted by SedatedSon
reply to post by Annee

Can you explain the homosexual behaviors in the animal kingdom where parents don't "teach them" what to do??

Many animals eat their young.
Many animals clean their private parts by licking.
Many animals will kill the young of females in order to bring them back into heat.
Many animals will hump any sex because it is a lust and 'pleasurable'.

So what point are you trying to make? God states that you are a man or a woman, and not an animal with no control over your behaviour. In fact, it is the animalistic behaviours that are overcoming the God given reasoning abilities that He provided to MAN. If somebody ties up a child as an infant, and treats that child as a dog, that child will act like an animal in its behaviours. Why? No adult taught that child appropriate behaviours. We eventually get the Lord of Flies. Study it and realise the outcome of a society with no morality or a morality that doesn't teach love and life.

I can train my dig to sit, bark on command and shake His paw. But at the day, he will still hump an occasional leg because it must bring a physical pleasure. Are you telling me that a human, with his reasoning, consciousness and decision making abilities doesn't have the ability to not hump a leg? That because an ANIMAL ccannot control sexual impulses that it's RIGHT for a human being to do the same? Perhaps you may wish to understand who not only thinks of you as an animal, but who also convinced you to think like one. Your morality, absent of God's morality, is always subject to the beast. And that is the Lord of the Flies, the power of the air, the principalities that rule the mind of man devoid of God.