Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:
IRONCHEF wrote:
I don't think gay couples (legally married or not) should be parents. I actually believe homosexual behavior is bad (just as fornication is bad) and to raise a child and condone such behavior is to start a child off poorly. I believe children should be raised by two loving parents..a mother and a father because each parent performs important, vital roles in the nuturing and growth of the child. Further, it is a commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. With gay parents, this shows lack of respect for that commandment as they cannot fulfill this commandment themselves.
I have a pair of lesbians I work with, both have become pregnant and are raising two adorable little girls. Both these women are excellent people and I treat them as i would heterosexual people, respectively. But in thinking of the difference in upbringing my little girl will have vs. what their little girls will have, I'm saddened at the thought of those little girls being raised by two homosexual women and the things she will not learn..and of the things she WILL learn.
1. Marriage is not just about having children. There are many couples who cannot, and many who choose not to have children. So these people lack respect for the commandment to go forth and be like rabbits?
2. Many children currently grow up in single parent households. Even when the divorce is amicable, the children are often shuffled around between the parents. This isn't always the best thing for the child. When the divorce isn't amicable, things are even worse.
3. Your moral decisions about what you teach your children is just that, your moral decisions. To think that children of gay/lesbian parents would get lesser morals, or different morals, shows a rather self righteous and moral superiority on your part.
4. You're right that children should be raised by loving parents. However, not every child will have both parents, even in hetero relationships, so the love of the parent(s) is the important thing. To say that a child would get less love from a gay/lesbian couple again shows a pretty self righteous and moral superiority on your part.
So, are you going to stop lesbian women from getting pregnant? Are you going to stop gay men from getting a women pregnant? Are you going to stop single women who are not married, and don't want to get married from getting pregnant to have a child? Without some major rights violations the answer is quite simply, no. There are a lot of kids if foster care and could use a loving family, regardless of their sexual orientation.
As far as children being picked on for their parents sexuality, I don't see the problem. Children of hetero parents are being picked on. All of these school shootings that happened, were they children of gay couples, or were they children of hetero couples that got picked on for one reason or another?
Saying that children would be picked on is BS. Kids of hetero families are already picked on, so what's the point? Children are already sexually, physically, and mentally abused by hetero parents. Is this any better than being raised by caring gay/lesbian parents? Moral values vary, and just because they may vary from some one else's doesn't make them wrong, it just makes them different.