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Already been addressed. The reality is: many (gay & straight) married couples raise children together. Many (gay and straight) married couples choose not to raise children together. Many (gay and straight) unmarried couples or singles raise children. Your proposition seems to fail either because marriage is no longer regarded as a commitment for the raising of children and/or because the sexuality of a particular couple has little or nothing to do with whether or not they choose to raise children.
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This is not a point. The problem is that families are
for the raising, and nurturing of replacements. You need to produce children, and you are right, the whole idea of a family has basically become a lifestyle choice. Adoption is one thing (and I quite addressed that), but the new biotechnological advances are entirely something else.
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I don't understand this point. Nothing in the Civil Marriage Act compels anyone, straight or gay, to marry.
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Some important reading material for you here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tr...h_Normal_(book). Legislation does compel everyone to accept a new norm. While I don't entirely agree with Michael Warner, he does make a compelling argument that the SSM debate has actually increased conformity among homosexuals, setting a new standard. Or as I argued previously, an attempt to change marriage from within.
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Where is this view increasing? Indeed, it seems self-evident to me that this view is in fact in rapid retreat in Canada (where a decade after the legalization of same sex marriage, we have somehow avoided any marital apocalypse.
Further, "monogamish lifestyles" are obviously not a post-same-sex-marriage phenomenon. And you have provided zero actual evidence (aside from a couple of anecdotes) that "monogamish lifestyles" are becoming more frequent in Canada in the last ten years (let alone evidence to suggest that there is some causal link between the Civil Marriage Act and any such increase).
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We are in the midst of a marriage apocalypse where common-law habitation is through the roof, marriage is declining everywhere (except among the upper classes - see my previous post), and families are shrinking below the level required for generational replacement.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/census...mily-1.1137083
As I said, painstakingly, and you ignored, crudely, this really doesn't have anything to do with homosexuality, or my acceptance of them as human beings with relational dignity, but more-so with my concern about a sociological shift away from families with relational responsibilities towards individuals who only understand themselves as autonomous. All of the posts in this thread have confirmed my view