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Originally Posted by eleanoraquitaine
Did Jesus himself speak against homosexuality? If not, then I see no reason to condemn a personal choice dictated by God.
On the other hand, I do not support gay "marriage" since "marriage" is a religious institution that the government should have no business interfering in, and I do support gay civil unions, since that is not a religious institution and can provide "equal rights" to gays.
Further, I am against gays adopting or raising children because I believe children are meant/better to be raised by a "normal" family with both a father and a mother.
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I might agree with your first claim if ALL references to marriage were taken out of law. In other words, people are married by their church, they get a union and civil benefits from the government, gay and straight. Otherwise we suffer a great risk of "separate but equal" being anything but equal.
While I may disagree with your second claim about children, I don't think there is enough reliable studies by unbias parties to prove it either way. However, I do feel that in almost all cases, a childs biological parent is better then none, so if its the choice between the state taking custody of the child or the child going to their gay parent, I think the obvious choice is to give them to the gay parent. In addition, I believe a "gay" family is better than no family at all. Certainly we have no shortage of children that need to be adopted around the world. I hardly think the state raising them is a better option. I feel it's the quality of the raising, and not the gender of the parents, that is most important.