No child is born a bigot. It’s just as easy to explain that some children have two dads or two moms as it is to explain that some children have a dad and a mom or only one or the other. The only way they’re going to end up wrongly thinking that it’s not normal is if their parents tell them that. And last I checked, being in the minority doesn’t mean you have fewer rights. Your views on gay couples adopting children are the minority but you still feel you have the right to force them down our throats. Just remember that other people have the same rights you do, and that includes the right to criticize you. I chose not to, but anybody else who does will be more than justified.
"The only way they’re going to end up wrongly thinking that it’s not normal is if their parents tell them that."
They will eventually wonder why 99 percent of their friends and classmates have a mom and dad and not two of the same. Homosexuality is not normal by any stretch and it never will be. I think its better, but its not normal and thats just statistics.
That’s highly unlikely considering only 69% of children live with their mom and dad. Nearly 1 out of 3 children - and this number rises every year - doesn’t.
Even if it is 99% of their friends, even if it’s 100% of their friends, they’re only going to wrongly believe that it’s abnormal if they’re taught to falsely believe that people who look or sound different are abnormal. Which, of course, they are not.
I said HAVE a mom and dad, not LIVE WITH a mom and dad. Those aren't quite the same thing.
If you don't think being gay is abnormal, than where we really disagree on is what normal means. To me, a state of being that characterises less than 5 percent of the population, cannot be consider normal. What does normal mean to you?
Well some kids have a dead parent or parents, some kids have a step dad or a step mom or both, some kids have a foster mom and/or dad...and some kids have adoptive parents and birth parents. Children being raised by a gay couple are still going to have a birth mom and a birth dad just like everybody else, they’re just also going to have two adoptive parents that are the same gender. Again, that’s only weird if parents wrongly teach their children to falsely believe that it’s weird or not normal. If parents do what they’re supposed to do and teach children to be kind and respectful and accepting of those who are different, instead of teaching them to fear those people, then they’re not going to bat an eye at it.
We may well have very different definitions of normal. I think you’re describing the words common and uncommon, not normal and abnormal. To me, something has to be bad or wrong in some way for it to be abnormal. Obviously there’s nothing bad or wrong about being gay whatsoever, so I don’t see how it can be considered abnormal.
Gay but against gay marriage? Iin?
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No child is born a bigot. It’s just as easy to explain that some children have two dads or two moms as it is to explain that some children have a dad and a mom or only one or the other. The only way they’re going to end up wrongly thinking that it’s not normal is if their parents tell them that. And last I checked, being in the minority doesn’t mean you have fewer rights. Your views on gay couples adopting children are the minority but you still feel you have the right to force them down our throats. Just remember that other people have the same rights you do, and that includes the right to criticize you. I chose not to, but anybody else who does will be more than justified.
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I agree with everything, except this:
"The only way they’re going to end up wrongly thinking that it’s not normal is if their parents tell them that."
They will eventually wonder why 99 percent of their friends and classmates have a mom and dad and not two of the same. Homosexuality is not normal by any stretch and it never will be. I think its better, but its not normal and thats just statistics.
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That’s highly unlikely considering only 69% of children live with their mom and dad. Nearly 1 out of 3 children - and this number rises every year - doesn’t.
Even if it is 99% of their friends, even if it’s 100% of their friends, they’re only going to wrongly believe that it’s abnormal if they’re taught to falsely believe that people who look or sound different are abnormal. Which, of course, they are not.
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I said HAVE a mom and dad, not LIVE WITH a mom and dad. Those aren't quite the same thing.
If you don't think being gay is abnormal, than where we really disagree on is what normal means. To me, a state of being that characterises less than 5 percent of the population, cannot be consider normal. What does normal mean to you?
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Well some kids have a dead parent or parents, some kids have a step dad or a step mom or both, some kids have a foster mom and/or dad...and some kids have adoptive parents and birth parents. Children being raised by a gay couple are still going to have a birth mom and a birth dad just like everybody else, they’re just also going to have two adoptive parents that are the same gender. Again, that’s only weird if parents wrongly teach their children to falsely believe that it’s weird or not normal. If parents do what they’re supposed to do and teach children to be kind and respectful and accepting of those who are different, instead of teaching them to fear those people, then they’re not going to bat an eye at it.
We may well have very different definitions of normal. I think you’re describing the words common and uncommon, not normal and abnormal. To me, something has to be bad or wrong in some way for it to be abnormal. Obviously there’s nothing bad or wrong about being gay whatsoever, so I don’t see how it can be considered abnormal.