> So the impotent, the barren, etc. shouldn't get married? What about > people who can have kids, but don't want them? And, quite frankly, you > use the term "family values" in a way I have a deep problem with. The > term has been co-opted to mean the traditional nuclear family with one > mom, one dad, and 2.7 children. What about my family, where I helped > and am helping raise my sister? What about my cousins, who adopted > three black children, making them a very obviously non-traditional > family? What about my date this weekend with a very loving and devoted > single mother? What about my friend who was molested by her natural > fater? Families aren't just about a mother and a father.
I never said they weren't a family and I think gay couples can easily be as good or better families. By nature men and women can have children together. Sometimes things happen and you need to adopt of use invetro (sp) and that's fine. I'm just saying it's impossible for two gay men to both be paternal parents of the same child always. So to teach that it's not impossible is a lie. > How does telling my (hypothetical) gay son that it's okay for him to be > in love with a man equate to telling him it doesn't matter who he > screws? Are you equating homosexuality with promiscuity, or are you > saying homosexuality is immoral? But for him to be in love with just one man usually involves morals, those same morals that you want to remove. I'm not saying being homosexual means promiscuity, I think if you start teaching kids that it doesn't matter which sex you go for then the whole monogamous sex thing will also disappear form our culture. Not overnight, it may take decades. > What about my rights to own slaves? What about my right for sufferage > to be limited to white males (ie me)? What about my right to get a > cheeseburger from Checkers (they closed years ago, and I still miss them)? You don't have those rights. > --Ben ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Studio MX with Flash Pro from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=51 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:180676 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
