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Originally Posted by peter12
I always find this statement to be incredibly bizarre as there is a clear reproductive function attached to straight marriage, and thus, it is naturally just that societies should legally protect straight marriage for the sake of its own survival.
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that's not the point, it's about one person in a free society having the right to do something while another person has those same rights revoked because of biological and genetic differences. The argument that a society needs to protect marriage to save our reproductive rate is beyond absurd, in the realm of absolute delusion and lunacy.
If 1% of the population is genetically homosexual restricting their personal freedoms effects reproduction rates how exactly? If anything reproduction rates need to slow down as the exponential growth curve of the population will soon exceed the finite resources the earth can provide. I just don't understand how you can say what you did... it's a sentence from a magical world where you don't think logically. I'd like to know how not giving 2 gay men a piece of paper that is legally binding will help women become impregnated with a child that becomes a member of society. If anything the scientific research shows that straight couples that get divorced, and thus the child is raised by a single mother, increases the childs chance of being homosexual if its a boy. This isn't conjecture, if your true point is that society needs to be saved from homosexual people not having babies you should be arguing that straight couples aren't allowed to divorce, because scientifically that's the logical argument to make. It is always just easier to ignore empirical data and go with the bible though.
I've got a degree in psychology and the actual research makes the biased and uneducated opinions of people against homosexuality harder to handle. Everyone here that hasn't done hard research on empirical studies needs to stop talking and go read because there is too much hatred and ignorance being thrown around in the public domain. I could write a 5 page essay here that explains exactly how and why homosexuality occurs in humans but I implore to go find the information yourself, if you are strongly anti-homosexual go read a lot and spend some time around a gay person, I guarantee your perspective will change. On the Kinsey scale I'm as straight as they come, there's no need to be so damning of the rights of those who are different, gay people getting married will not lead to the apocalypse.