Same-Sex Marriage - A Threat To Whom?

12-23-04 | Ernie1241

[I_dmc]

One view: Governments should *not* have the right to perform marriages. They should be only allowed to create civil unions. The concept of marriage is steeped in tradition and even allowing government entities to perform them weakens our traditions. Only a religious entity should be allowed to deem a civil union a marriage. To those that might say, "What about atheists"? I say, how can one participate in a tradition created by religion if one is an atheist without being a hypocrit?

[MeekOneGOP]

The poster has joined with the "dearly departed" now.
(Means "banned or suspended" from FR).

[scripter]

Why thank you! I've never used that particular FR search function.

[MeekOneGOP]

My pleasure. :^)

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

The studies that ernie listed, which dealt with homosexual fathers, etc, are termed "Snowball studies."

Since those studies recruited from gay publications, etc, they are "snowball studies" and are highly inaccurate.

The most accurate studies are Registry studies. A Registry study dealing homosexual fathers raising children, for instance, would recruit fathers and then subsequently ask for their sexual orientation. The fathers would have no idea about what they were being recruited for, and thus the study would be highly accurate.

The studies Ernie listed one could term junk science.

[rogers21774]

Well said!

[little jeremiah]

Makes total sense. Kind of like Kinsey - he came up with the 10% figure after interviewing prisoners, prostitutes, drug addicts and the like. At least I think he included drug addicts.

Real cross section of society. Not.