The answer to how Gay Marriage will ruin society.

If gay marriage will ruin society, how come that 50% divorce rates in heterosexual marriages hasn't? Or has it?

Not that I'm pro gay marriage or anything, just trying to get some perspective into this.

Janissary said:

If gay marriage will ruin society, how come that 50% divorce rates in heterosexual marriages hasn't? Or has it?

Not that I'm pro gay marriage or anything, just trying to get some perspective into this.

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That's my point too... although I guess one could say that divorce has ruined society and there's no reason to allow other supposedly non biblical acts to add to that destruction.

I figure the only way my marriage could be threatened would be by an act of myself or my husband. In terms of the price society pays for divorce as compared to marriage (of anybody) it's my opinion that divorce impacts more people outside the family than marriage because divorce is more likely to increase the need for social services, court services long after the divorce is over etc..

In terms of the (Christian) church - probably every marital issue that has popped up over the years (interracial marriage, divorce, remarriage after divorce, marriage to non Christians, polygamy, same sex marriage) contributes to the division and/or breakdown of the church as people divide based on their own convictions of what is acceptable. However I don't expect secular society to prop up my church.

Perhaps we need to operationalize "ruin society."

What does that mean exactly?

"operationalize"? You work for the government, don't you?


God bless,
Eddie


Hey kids, we need to operationalize...

eddieJ said:

"operationalize"? You work for the government, don't you?

Hey kids, we need to operationalize...

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No, I really, really don't. Its a scientific term for making arbitrary measurements more scientific, by defining subjective concepts by objective means.

For this particular case...at what point can we say that society is ruined? How do we measure the ruin of society? What event would define that society is ruined?

Squeejie said:

i have a vision of Mario busting a move, that i can't seem to get out of my head.

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... now I do too.

Gaa!!

yasic said:

I have been thinking about how people claim that gay marriage will ruin society, but never actually specify how, and I think I finally found out what their reasoning is...

In the bible, it states Homosexuality as an abomination. If society will allow homosexual marriage, then it is clearly taking a piece of the bible, and willingly opposing it. This will signal to people who have read the bible that it is fine to disregard parts of it, thus eliminating its power (If you think you can easily ignore parts of the bible, why on earth will you take it as the answer to the greatest question in life?)

Thus, by allowing Homosexual marriage, or even civil unions, you are effectively turning the bible knob down a notch on our society.

Thoughts?

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Well done, but I think you have too much time on your hands.

agreed. O_O

faithfulone1219 said:

i totally agree! well said

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Given that homosexual behavior is observed across the animal kingdom, you'd be wrong.

tgg said:

I think repealing the First Amendment could be a good thing in some ways. We would have far less hate crimes, bullying, racism, sexism, homophobia and gymnophobia that we currently have in the world today.

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Your claim makes no sense at all. Care to explain?

Hey TGG,

What the heck is gymnophobia? I mean I know Americans are out of shape, but I'm not sure they actually have an unreasonable anxiety about the gym.

[Sarcasm] Everyone knows that a family contains two parts, the male and the female. Men are to work, kill, and provide the bacon for the family unit. Women are raised to tend to the children, clean the house, and cook. How is a homosexual family going to operate under these conditions? Men cant cook and women cant work meaning that the family will starve!

lemmings said:

[Sarcasm] Everyone knows that a family contains two parts, the male and the female. Men are to work, kill, and provide the bacon for the family unit. Women are raised to tend to the children, clean the house, and cook. How is a homosexual family going to operate under these conditions? Men cant cook and women cant work meaning that the family will starve!

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Gay male families will contract with the lesbian family down the street.

Eve not steve!

besides if it's legal I might start questioning my own sexuality.

Gay Marriage tends to shift wealth centralization away from people with children to people without children. The long term consequences in planning, governmental, business, and individual, have been shown historically to relate to the decline of the civilizations where it took place. Anyway, that is how I understand it.

SergeAStrom said:

Gay Marriage tends to shift wealth centralization away from people with children to people without children. The long term consequences in planning, governmental, business, and individual, have been shown historically to relate to the decline of the civilizations where it took place. Anyway, that is how I understand it.

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Any evidence for this slippery slope?

...of course not.

SergeAStrom said:

Gay Marriage tends to shift wealth centralization away from people with children to people without children.

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What does this mean? Define "wealth centralization". And tell me how gay marriage "shifts" such "wealth centralization".

SergeAStrom said:

The long term consequences in planning, governmental, business, and individual, have been shown historically to relate to the decline of the civilizations where it took place. Anyway, that is how I understand it.

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Where has it been shown that the decline of civilization is related to the "shifting" of "wealth centralization" from those with children to those without. And which civilizations has this taken place in?

IOW: Huh?

SergeAStrom said:

Gay Marriage tends to shift wealth centralization away from people with children to people without children. The long term consequences in planning, governmental, business, and individual, have been shown historically to relate to the decline of the civilizations where it took place. Anyway, that is how I understand it.

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Is this a Poe's Law moment?