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Americans Reject Gay Marriage
Why is it Americans decision
Most of Americans don’t want to legalize gay marriage, but how does that affect all that oppose it? If gay couples want to get married, why is it up to the whole world to decide whether or not they can? To all opposing and opposite-sex couples; why should you get to be happily married to the one you love and same- sex couples are denied the right in most states? Whether or not you think “being gay is wrong” doesn’t matter. There will still be gay couples so why not let them live life as happily as you are.
- skittles
February 5, 2009 9:17AM
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Americans make choices for America.
I see what you’re saying, but if we legalize gay rights then they will be living among us, and influencing the minds of our children in a negative way. So in the end it is in the hands of the Americans. I hate to say it but when a couple is gay they are just experimenting and playing house. Do you honestly think that those marriages’ will last? Then that will effect and children that might have been involved between that couple.
- cjobeth10
February 5, 2009 2:44PM
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Research?
According to many studies (including a fairly recent one performed by Jennifer L. Wainright, Stephen T. Russell, and Charlotte J. Patterson), revealed that children in same-sex families were no more likely to be predisposed to gay, lesbian, or bisexual lifestyles than their opposite-sex family counterparts.
Please do your research before making such claims.
- QuinceyQuick
February 6, 2009 11:42AM
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Here's some research for you....
"A large and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the intact, married family is best for children." Thats part of an article from the family research council for you to read its really good here the URL...Enjoy.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IF04G01
- cjobeth10
February 9, 2009 2:44PM
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Divorce, not sexes.
Oh, you're right! Here, let me parse up the articles for you.
Kyle Pruett, Fatherneed (Broadway Books, 2001) 204.
Elizabeth Marquardt, The Moral and Spiritual Lives of Children of Divorce. Forthcoming.
Ellis, Bruce J., et al., "Does Father Absence Place Daughters at Special Risk for Early Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy?" Child Development, 74:801-821.
David Popenoe, Life Without Father (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Eleanor MacCoby, The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together (Boston: Harvard, 1998).
Steven Rhoads, Taking Sex Differences Seriously (Encounter Books, 2004).
Hey, would you look at that?! Most of the articles are talking about the -absence- of a parent! Maybe it's -divorces- that cause psychological problems, not lacking a parent of one gender or the other.
- QuinceyQuick
February 9, 2009 3:07PM
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Let me break it down for you...
Obviously you did not read the points of this article right...
1. Children hunger for their biological parents.
2. Children need fathers.
3. Children need mothers.
4. Evidence on parenting by same-sex couples is inadequate.
5. Evidence suggests children raised by homosexuals are more likely to experience gender and sexual disorders.
6. Same-sex "marriage" would undercut the norm of sexual fidelity within marriage.
7. Same-sex "marriage" would further isolate marriage from its procreative purpose.
8. Same-sex "marriage" would further diminish the expectation of paternal commitment.
9. Marriages thrive when spouses specialize in gender-typical roles.
10. Women and marriage domesticate men.
once agian heres the URL if you would like to look into the details of the points...
- cjobeth10
February 11, 2009 9:17AM
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I don't care what the article says.
I care what sources the article cites. Any old article can make any old claim, but unless the sources they cite are relevant and compelling, the article is as good as Joe Schmoe's rantings about why the world will end in ten days.
Once again, I implore you to look at the titles of the references. You'll see that most of what's written in the article itself is just clever wordplay and misusing research to further one's own ends. The article might -tell- you that the research is against same-sex marriages, but in reality, the references are against divorce and single parents.
You can't build your argument off of research that is making a very different point. You can't pull research out of context and use it for your own ends. That's academic dishonesty.
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February 11, 2009 10:16AM
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Children need PARENTS
Wait, what is this about women and marriage domesticating men?
Sexism at it's finest, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry, ladies, gentlemen, and wild, crazy, chaotic men who have not yet found a woman to tame them.
- quantummechanik
June 8, 2009 1:37AM
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