... marriage is about forming the best possible environ in which to procreate (and MORE IMPORTANTLY) raise children. Homosexuals, by definition, cannot... Thus, they are not eligible for the priviledges.
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Of course. The only purpose of marriage is to have children! Why do you think Solomon had all those wives and concubines, to keep him company?!
By golly, we should ban anyone who can't have kids from marrying! Barren women, sterile men, elderly women and men, even if they are straight! They're just as bad as the filthy gays! Without kids, a marriage is utterly pointless! My goodness, what was my great-uncle thinking when he remarried? Both he and his current wife were above childbearing age! It didn't matter that he already had four daughters by his first wife and that his new wife already had kids, too! They needed more babies, darn it! What else could they do with their free time, the lazy bums?
And don't even mention adoption! Man, is that what you want to do to those poor kids! You'd rather them be raised by the EVIL gays than be kept on welfare and shuttled back and forth? Even if their straight mommies and daddies beat them up or beat each other up, their marriages are still better than the gays' will ever be, because we said so!
...Henry VIII would be proud.
And what about heterosexuals marriages where one or both partners cannot procreate, like the one between my wife and I? The state recognizes our marriage without a problem.
Admit it, you haven't thought about this very deeply, have you?
no actually marriage a legal contract between two people promising to share assets and responsibilities. It doesn't have anything to do with children.
My aunt and uncle are childless by choice. Does that mean their marriage doesn't count?
And anyway, if raising children is more important then procreating, then gay people can adopt children to raise.
Straight out of the Inherited Obligation Society belief system.
From 'Red Family, Blue Family'
"The husband/father and wife/mother roles in the Inherited Obligation model are timeless, unchangeable, and necessary. Someone has to be the husband/father and someone has to be the wife/mother. Same-sex couples just can’t cover both roles, no matter how well-intentioned they may be.
But no comparable difficulty exists in the Negotiated Commitment model. A child has needs, and the parents have to negotiate a plan to meet those needs. Whether the parents are a mixed-sex couple or a same-sex couple - or even a single parent with a lot of committed friends - the problem is the same.
If the government recognizes same-sex marriages and same-sex couples as parents, then it is tacitly siding with the Negotiated Commitment model of marriage and parenthood, and undermining the Inherited Obligation model. This is why conservatives believe that marriage needs to be “defended” from same-sex relationships. But from the Negotiated Commitment point of view, “defense of marriage” is nonsense. How a same-sex couple negotiates its relationship has no effect on the negotiated relationships of mixed-sex couples."
No, homosexuality by definition means they're attracted to the same gender. They still have all their naughty bits and the naughty bits still worky work. Babies are born every day to homosexual couples. The only difference between them and the children born to het couples is that every child a homo couple brings into the world is WANTED AND PLANNED FOR.
So, those of us who can't procreate, what should we do? Why are we not eligible for the "priviledges"?
I'm quite pissed off at your deity, actually. I have had one, says one, consummate partner in this life, but your God still doesn't see fit to grant me the privilege of "issuing an heir".
So if you marry and find out, after several years of trying, that you cannot have children, does that mean your divorce is automatic? Or have you just been poking it in the wrong hole all this time?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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