And the acceptance of homosexual marriage will, in time, worsen the quality of life.
You argue against yourself later when you say "It seems to me no one one really knows with any degree of certainly whether homosexual marriage is a good or a bad thing for society".
So this first objection is only opinion.
We know AIDS is a real danger, especially to men.
Aids is a danger to all, but it has nothing to do with allowing gays to marry. In fact, by that logic, allowing gays to marry should decrease the spread of the disease. I don't see why this statement has anything to do with marriage.
We know gay couples cannot reproduce.
Of course they can. The same way creative infertile couples have-- insemination, surrogates. And even if they can't, so what? We know many childless couples who either can't or have chosen not to reproduce. We don't deny them marriage.
And we have a sense that not experiencing the wonders of intimate contact with the opposite sex, can lesson (sic) someones life experience.
Opinion. Are you and I missing the wonders of intimate contact with the same sex because we are hetero? I am sure the life experience of gays is filled with love and wonder, especially if we don't shut them off from society by making them feel somehow ashamed, and that they enjoy fullfilling friendships with heteros, just as we can with gays. THe expression and experience of real love isn't dependent on some technical method, but on caring and love for each other as human beings who were created in a wondrous variety of ways. |
