I have no idea what percentage of gay couples have children now.
Those numbers are critical to your argument, because they certainly would convince social conservatives like myself.
I only know that up 8 to 10 million children could benefit from it, in addition to thousands of kids in foster care.
That's true but worthless since the same can be said for incest; that argument doesn't say anything specific of gay couples, but of just any couple one can imagine.
If you have better statistics to indicate how many married people over the course of their lives have kids, then I would love to see them. What is clear is that currently less than half the people who are married, have kids.
That statistic only shows how corrupt out culture is. The divorce rate substantiates this as well.
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56% will not raise children like like heteros" is not a convincing argument to those of us who oppose heteros marrying without intent of raising children.
Heteros are not a pure sample for gays to then point to and claim that they are just like.
I put my support behind gay marriage which is exactly like all other marriages I support. This means that I automatically oppose gays marrying when they will form a step-parent family because I oppose heteros doing the same thing. I oppose gays marrying "
for the legal benefits" because I already oppose heteros doing the same thing.
All of these distinctions are lost when you look at the issue of marriage through the eyes of identity politics. It's not about social groups, it's about the function an institution is supposed to perform. Any couple capable of performing that function should have access, but you can't identify such a couple merely by what social group they belong to.
So should gays have the right to marry? Hell no they should not. Any couple in loving, stable, committed relationship should have the right to marry be they opposite sex, same sex, mixed race, etc.
The right should not be accessible by just any gay couple just like it shouldn't be accessible by just any hetero couple now.
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Gay rights"...pht, I don't give a **** about "
gay rights". How about "
stable couple" rights,
"couples raising children" rights.
I'm not about to support a gay couple just because of their sexual orientation. That's reverse homophobia and is just as irrational.