Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
Gay couples aren't going to go straight just because the law says they can't marry. Allowing gay marriage has zero impact on population whatsoever.
I never implied that gay couples should become straight. There's just no advantage for society to recognize same-sex unions. In male-female unions we see a definite advantage that deserves a hat-tip and a tax break from the government. Normal couples can have children and keep a society alive by producing children. The tax break can be seen as a reward for the expense and trouble that couples go though to have offspring.
Allowing gay marriage is rewarding behavior that has no advantage for the society. What can homosexuals do that straight people can't? Nothing. What can normal couples do that homosexuals can not. They can have children and produce the next generation for the country.
Originally posted by melatonin
What happens when medical science can do something for same-sex couples?
Lets say medical science can provide a method to clone or make a child from the genomes of both parents. What then? Time to allow marriage for same-sex partners?
You do realize that cloned animals still need a uterus to grow in? While this might provide some hope for lesbian couples, male-male couples are out in the cold. Again, it's not religion that's holding homosexuals back. It's just nature. Nature frowns on homosexual couples and denies them continuance by not allowing them to have children. If anything religious groups are simply acknowledging what science proves to be true.
What's amusing that this argument against Christians (anti gay marriage) is really a beef with Nature. Christians are not making the rules, just acknowledging and following them.
[edit on 2-3-2008 by dbates]


