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Originally Posted by BlackRedGold25
Do you think it is fair to bring a child into the world without a father? Especially when there are plenty of children in the world in foster care?
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I've known people who have grown up with awful, destructive fathers, and people who have grown up in loving single-parent families. It isn't a matter of how many parents or what gender the parents are, it's about the care taken while raising the child. Period. I can list at least 15 heterosexual couples I know personally who have children that absolutely should not be raising children. I know gay couples who do a fabulous job of raising children.
Edit: with regards to the "too many children in foster care" you also gave a fabulous argument in favor of legalized abortion and socialized birth control.
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
Divorce is far too easy to get and it does mean people do take marriage far less seriously. It's unfortunate that there's no support to make it more difficult to get.
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But again, answer my question. If it's about the sanctity of marriage, why isn't there support to stop divorces?
Because many of the people who are so adamantly opposed to gay marriage are divorced one or more times themselves. Because making divorces harder to get would be infringing on their rights, and that can't possibly happen. Straight, wealthy, white men get to have all the rights in the world, but when anyone else expects them, it's debated for ages before anything actually happens.
Again, if it's about the sanctity of marriages, why isn't anyone going to Las Vegas to protest the quickie 24 hour wedding chapels? Because a marriage that starts while drunk and then quickly ends in a divorce isn't an affront to the "sanctity" of marriage, but a loving gay couple wanting to share their life together is? Kim Kardashian's farce of a marriage isn't devaluing the institution? No one protested outside of her house when she got married to much fanfare and then got divorced a few short months later.
It is not about the sanctity of marriage, it's about controlling a minority.