The Family Foundation is pushing for legislation in Kentucky to ban gay adoption, to “ensure that children are placed in the best possible homes.“ You may be thinking, who cares? I don’t want kids.
Let’s face it, there are a lot of gays who don’t want kids. That’s fine. If you don’t want kids you really should not have them. But if you want to get married, you need to fight for gay adoption.
Why? Because there are a very few arguments conservatives use to deny the right to gay marriage. One is the procreation argument. The Right has been using this for centuries. It goes like this: “The purpose of marriage is to create children. God created marriage so mankind would replenish the race. There is no other reason for sex or marriage. That’s also why sex outside of marriage is wrong.”
So, if gays are allowed to adopt, that means the state is condoning gay adoption. If gay adoption is sanctioned by the state, that means the state is saying gays are acceptable parents. If gays are acceptable parents to the state, and if the purpose of marriage is to have (raise) children, then the state has to allow gay marriage. See?
Now, the courts have often taken the procreation argument as fallacious and incongruent with the law. For example, consider this statement by the State’s attorney in the December 2008 Iowa Supreme Court gay marriage case, Varnum vs. Brien:
“By fostering same-sex marriage the state will harm and could defeat its [marriage's] vital purpose. The state will be teaching that marriage is not necessary.”
The judge in the case questions the State:
“If procreation is a primary basis for marriage, how does recognition of same-sex marriage result in less children born?”
Now, wait for it… wait… here we go. The State responds with the slippery slope (fallacious) arguement:
“It doesn’t. But it could. There is a legitimate fear when the state encourages same-sex marriage, it teaches that marriage is no longer about procreation, it says procreation is not important.”
And the fear-mongering continues:
”In a generation or two after same-sex marriage is legal you will see the fabric of marriage fall apart. In allowing same-sex marriage the state would be saying you do not need a mother or father.”
Ridiculus? Yes. The judge agrees:
“How is this having a real purpose? There are more child born out of wedlock today than ever.”
Let’s hope the Iowa court decides this case correctly, and soon. This ruling could set a precedent for the flood of anti-gay adoption legislation that is coming.
It’s been a few months since Prop 8 passed. We were angry. We got a lot of attention and made a lot of headway in getting people on our side. But now, like new year’s resolutions, we’ve grown complacent. Well, it’s time to wake up and start fighting again.
So, you want to get married but don’t want kids? Get to work anyway. Fight this wave of anti-gay bigotry. For yourself, and for the kids.
Related posts:
- Today’s Iowa Supreme Court Hearing On Same-Sex Marriage: Defense Argues Tradition, Polygamy, Procreation
- Iowa Supreme Court Says “Yes” To Gay Marriage!
- RNC Chairman Michael Steele: “Welcome, Gays!” or, Why Gay Marriage Is Not A States’ Issue
- Iowa Gay Marriage Ruling Announced Tomorrow!
- Gay adoption before Florida Legislature, courts
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Biblically what you are promoting is what the Blessed Lord calls and abomination. If you can show me where in the Bilbe it approves of perversion which is what you people do. I will leave it alone. Perverts all
Except that the Bible is not the foundation for law in our country. If you'd like the Bible to be your law, then you'd need to form a theocracy. And good luck getting people on board with the rest of the Leviticus BS you'd have to follow.
Ok. I can do that for you, which means by what you said that you will leave it alone. In the Bible it states love one another. It also states do not judge others as well as all sins will be forgiven. God made all people right? So God does not make people that he does not love or believe in. Therefore you are judging someone God made and loves. Look at you acting out a sin right there by what you are doing. Oh what a good little Christian you are. God would not make people that were an abomination to him. It is not a choice by any means to be gay. It is biological something you are born with that makes you that way. Just the same as a straight person. God put them here and made sure they were born and thrived. Our lives are mapped out based on Gods plan so what makes you think that he calls them an abomination. Next time read the Bible carefully and all the way through before you make anymore ignorant comments that make you look like a simpleton
June is one of those militant Christian heterosupremacists. Grammar, punctuation and common sense seem to be in short supply when the Bible becomes involved. If June were really into the sanctity of marriage, she'd be railing against divorce, sex before marriage, adulterous Republican Senators & Governors, mixed fiber clothing, etc… She'd be for stoning non-virgins that want to be married and killing sassy mouthed children. But no. In her grammatically challenged world, she's smarter than God and therefore able to pick-and-choose which parts of the Bible she wants to live her life by. June's post isn't very Christ-like, but then most Christianists aren't.
What Lance said.
I agree with Lance as well. I believe it is not anyones right to say what a person can and cannot do. You love who you love and if a gay family wants children why not? My best friend is gay and my daughter loves staying with her and her partner because they are family just like my sister and brother-in-law. My friends would love to have a child and I don't think it is anyones right to tell them that they shouldn't. They would be better parents than almost anyone I know. People need to stop trying to control the world with their personal beliefs against this. What about single mothers? People say children raised by single mothers are raised different. Very incorrect again. Put logic into your thinking and you will see giving rights to gays for marriage/having children/etc is not going to hurt anyone in anyway. If you don't like it than stay out of it but don't deny someone their own rights because of your own personal beliefs. You wouldn't want it done to you.
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