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Debate: Should Same Sex Marriage Be Legal?

March 11, 2010 5:31 AM

Marriage is widely recognized as an institution that improves the health and wellness of individuals and society. Dr. Jon LaPook hosts a debate about whether same sex marriage should be legalized.

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by orkney111 January 25, 2012 6:50 PM EST
The greatest threat to children remains the parents who should never have procreated, not the taxpaying, law-abiding gay couples who live and work in the same community. When I hear "we need twenty-million more jobs in America" I can't help but think we need twenty-million fewer people! The death of anti-homosexual nonsense is our best bet in combating the insatiable need for we heterosexuals to continue to make more people than we can support. Someone has to slow the cancer of overpopulation. We should thank the gays!
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by morgand22 May 7, 2010 1:09 AM EDT
Dr. Krause I disagree when u say that children are better when they are in family?s with a mom and a dad for fact I am 15 years old and my mother and father were married for 8 years and have just recently have gotten a divorce my father cheated on my mother many times and ruined my family and ruined the meaning if marriage. My family was bad with a mother and father and the issues at home swayed me to drink and not obey rules. now recently my mother has came out and she is bi and has a girlfriend and this wonderful lady that now I consider my other mom has been in my home for a year , she treats me and my 3 other siblings like her own and has treated us better than my father ever did. My life is way better with her in my life and my family is now more warming to be a part of. I am also gay and I know for a fact that I did not "turn" gay because of my 2 moms because I knew when I was 8 so the fact that children need a motherly figure and fatherly figure is wrong children are perfectly fine with same sex parents and I hope one day when i get to the age to have a family that my wife and I are able to have a family and that these law?s and theory?s against homosexuals will be gone.
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by kanohomalie1 May 1, 2010 7:28 PM EDT
Another example of someone opposing gay marriage based on opinion. Every gay family with children I know, are amazing! Of course same-sex marriage should be legal.
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by antoniof123 March 16, 2010 8:41 AM EDT
I don't care I am not gay so I won't marry a gay person.

If you don't believe in gay marriage don't marry one. Leave them alone and leave me alone.

Problem solved next!
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by greensprings March 12, 2010 12:27 PM EST
Spriritualy, this is about marriage, a state of holy matrimony. It is a question for God and not man.
The human race has no right to deny anyone anything under God. Anyone who believes in Him should be given access to His blessings.
And in the end as in all things God will be the final judge.
Not the members of his church.
A true and honest faith would honor all those seeking any holy union.
Anything short of that is sectarian manipulaion of The Holy Spirit.

Legally, this is a Constitutional matter. We are all entitled to be treated equally.
We are also entitled to worship as we choose.
But nowhere does the document say that the worshipers should have influence on the right to equality.

We are, all of us, "One nation, under God".
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by Xavcore March 12, 2010 7:31 AM EST
In general, I'm the last one to judge someone, but it's logic that every species of living being has(femele and male), except for some species and that is not for nothing.

I already know that there are a lot of people among you that will find a lot of reasons to justify their choice.

That is my opinion but you can do what you want, I don't care, because I know that I won't pay for bad human behaviors.

I would like to say the same thin for you too...
My lousy grammar is justified because I'm still learnig English, you can judge me because you are perfect, never in your life you were a student.

According to my knowledge, someone doesn't need to write perfectly to express his opinion.
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by Xavcore March 12, 2010 6:30 AM EST
In general, I'm the last one to judge someone, but it's logic that every species of living being has(femele and male), except for some species and that is not for nothing.

I already know that there are a lot of people among you that will find a lot of reasons to justify their choice.

that is my opinion but you can do what you want, I don't care, because I know that I won't pay for bad human behaviors.
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by Boater_in_Colorado March 11, 2010 11:16 PM EST
Has anyone looked at the organization for which Crouse is the spokesperson. Here is a quote from the ?About Us? portion of their website: ?CWA has nearly 500 prayer/action chapters in almost every state, where our members pray, educate themselves and others, and act to protect those Biblical principles we believe are the foundation of freedom. And you too can make a difference by joining CWA! No previous training is necessary; we will provide you with all the tools you need to make your voice heard in your state and at the federal level. ?

This discussion would be far more credible if a properly credentialed psychologist presented an opposing view. Instead a spokesperson from an organization whose stated goal is ?bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy? was chosen.

The purpose of her organization, and its inherent animus toward gays and gay marriage should be clearly identified at the start of the segment. It would help to put her vague and unsubstantiated references to social science research in perspective.
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by mrgeeks March 11, 2010 10:18 PM EST
In successfully opposing the ERA, Phyllis Schlafly repeatedly pointed out that "marriage is the only institution guaranteeing a woman the right to be supported by her husband". This does not mention the fact that marriage is the only institution that makes a male an invested partner in society and raising children, a socializes men along prosocial lines.

N.O.W. intends to change marriage so that it guarantees women the right to at least six sources of income, while men snockered into "accidentally" getting women pregnant have nothing to do but pay a load of child support. Our national focus on child support undermined the balance of marriage. Now, feminists intend to use it to fully restructure marriage to become a feminist enterprise that is far more economically advantageous than heterosexual marriage.

When the divorce revolution began, folks thought it was just a blip and could not imagine a day when nearly half of children would be born outside marriage. No-fault divorce and excessive child support orders were thought to be just fine and dandy. Now that marriage has been largely wrecked, we must recognize that the structural model of same sex marriage is indeed pointing America towards social bedlam and a dangerous gender war the likes of which are unimaginable today.
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by mrgeeks March 11, 2010 10:08 PM EST
Gay marriage does not ameliorate the fact that being gay is a sexual disorder. Gays have 8 times more sex partners than heterosexuals. That is a sexual disorder that "marriage" does not heal.

Gay marriage is a feminist ruse to create a political-marital matriarchy. Two married women have at least 4 sources of income (their incomes and two sets of child support orders).

Feminists want to use the fact that children are considered chattel of mothers to boot men out of marriage and society. It is also their method for ending the structural problems of single mothers (they marry each other and have multiple incomes to support one roof). The 50% of children living absent marriage and fathers are intended to become 40% of children living in matriarchal marriages. The exloding illegitimacy numbers are intended to become exploding numbers of children born into matriarchal marriages.

Of course, in this scenario this country will become a very dangerous place to live when 40% of disaffected, detached men have nothing to do.

Every federal and state law is already in place to make this happen, except for the "right" for women to run this nation as a political matriarchy.

The CWA is asleep at the switch and does not understand the underlying feminist goals, which have always been to destroy heterosexual marriage and then re-align it as a feminist enterprise.
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