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> You heathens don't seem to grasp the far reaching consequences for
> America of the breakdown of the American family:
>
> 1. The effect on kids of divorce who are unable to witness a positive
> family situation and are far likely to end up in divorce in their own
> marriages.
> 2. The increase in juvenile crime, suicide, drug/alchohol abuse due to
> a poor family structure. Boys need a male role model and girls need a
> female one.
> 3.The abomination of gay marriage which is being used as a recruiting
> tool to create more homosexuals. If a child has two dads or moms they
> will see that as normal and copy that.
> 4. The meddling of courts in family matters both in granting easy
> divorces and the oppression of Child Serivices which tries to keep
> parents from raising kids properly out of fear..
> 5. Schools are no longer a place of learning when children have to deal
> with all of the above instead of going home to mom and dad and a
> supportive loving Christian home
>
You bible thumpers don't seem to grasp the far reaching consequences of
scientific evidence.
1) Divorce is common. In fact, it is more common amongst those who claim to
be religious. I guess words and preaching don't equate to actions.
2) The increases in crime is directly related to poverty/low economic
status. The same factors that influence success in school.
3) Gays do not actively recruit. Where this myth came from is beyond me. I
was born with a prediliction to love women. While I find male-male
relationships to be, at best, foreign, to my thinking, homosexuals have the
same visceral reaction to hetrosexual relationships. If it were simply a
lifestyle choice, would it not make more sense to choose to be bisexual?
4) We agree on something. Courts and church/religion should be separate.
Church approved marriages, dictates, etc. should be of no concern to the
state. Despite this, for good or ill, the state sets tax systems, rules for
health benefits, etc. based upon some definition of marriage. For this
reason, the courts are involved, sadly. Thus, if a church approves marriages
between any two consenting adults, then they are married. Those who feel
that marriage is about religion are deluded. By the way, I happen to know
more than one male reared by homosexual parents. None of them are
homosexual. Empirical evidence suggests that, perhaps, homosexuality isn't
contagious.
5) Schools fail, or succeed, for a variety of reasons. I have students who
come to school after deaths in the family through violence. Can you really
believe that someone who does not expect to live to be an adult cares a
flying f*** about some hypothetical future career? Can you believe that
someone, whose parents are drugged to the point of mental incompetance, and
who must take care of, and protect, their younger siblings, is going to do
well in school? It isn't about marriage, buddy, it is about a society which
allows fewer than 50% of its African-American males to fail to graduate from
high school. It is about a society that is so frickin' worried about gay
marriage and abortion that they inappropriately spend money on pathetic
political issues rather than on improving the lives of our most
impoverished. It is about a society which ignores the deaths of teens in the
low economic strata and pretends that homosexual marriage is more important.
Sorry about the diatribe, but to put it simply, your efforts are
misdirected, at best. Fallacious, at worst.
Rick