Can a homossexual couple raising kids be called a family?

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

So, yes they can be called a family is what I’m understanding from your post.

Lou

Yes Lou. I would call it a family. But the little old “Church Ladies” in the last pew are going to say: “Look, there’s that beautiful family, you know the one with those adorable adopted children”.

They would be right.

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

For decades, homosexualists have been using circumlocutions to insinuate their lifestyle into common parlance. Lover, partner, domestic partner, etc. So it is only fair that we offer circumlocutions so that we do not sully the word “family” to apply it to homosexuals playing house.

So let’s see, what else could we call it? A confab? A gaggle of gays? I’m open to more suggestions.

I think “Rainbow Connection” would be nice.

 

[Lou2U]

Yes Lou. I would call it a family. But the little old “Church Ladies” in the last pew are going to say: Look, there’s that beautiful family, you know the one with those adorable adopted children".

They would be right.

Not entirely sure why the second sentence would change anything. Anyway, I was asking because from the tone of your first post where you said:

You can “call it” a family…but it is not a normal family.

It almost was implied (to me) that you did not regard any family other than a mum, dad and children as a family. However, I now know different

Lou

 

[bloodfang]

What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I am gay, a furry, oppressed, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** about my kind over the Internet? Think again, ******. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of furries across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare your anus, kiddo. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable *** off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** furry all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

 

[John_of_Woking]

What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I am gay, a furry, oppressed, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** about my kind over the Internet? Think again, ******. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of furries across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare your anus, kiddo. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable *** off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** furry all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

But are you a family?

 

[bloodfang]

But are you a family?

my dog is like my son. my husband thinks so too

 

[Elizium23]

I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.

The gorillas are running scared today.

 

[Lou2U]

The gorillas are running scared today.

Someone either has anger issues or they’re trolling - I wonder which one…

 

[Mulligan2]

For decades, homosexualists have been using circumlocutions to insinuate their lifestyle into common parlance. Lover, partner, domestic partner, etc. So it is only fair that we offer circumlocutions so that we do not sully the word “family” to apply it to homosexuals playing house.

So let’s see, what else could we call it? A confab? A gaggle of gays? I’m open to more suggestions.

I suggest “family.”

 

[LisaA]

For decades, homosexualists have been using circumlocutions to insinuate their lifestyle into common parlance. Lover, partner, domestic partner, etc. So it is only fair that we offer circumlocutions so that we do not sully the word “family” to apply it to homosexuals playing house.

So let’s see, what else could we call it? A confab? A gaggle of gays? I’m open to more suggestions.

Yep to paragraph one. A good laugh regarding paragraph 2

As to defining family, we should look to the ideal, the Holy Family–Joseph, Mary and Jesus and try to model this structure.

But as you said, it’s a tactic to use innocuous terms to normalize behavior and family non-structure that has no biological or historical basis. But if all is relative, then why not go through the kind of linguistic gymnastics that defy science and Natural Law to pretend all family structures have equivalent positive impact on their members and on society.

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

I just asked two kids, ages 5 and 7, what a “family” is.

Their response:
“People who sometimes live together who help each other and love each other forever and have dinner with each other.”

So….there is truth.

.

They don’t know the difference between a Family and a tribe.

We’re doomed!

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

Originally Posted by bloodfang View Post
What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I am gay, a furry, oppressed, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** about my kind over the Internet? Think again, ******. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of furries across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare your anus, kiddo. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable *** off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** furry all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

But are you a family?

I’m sorry…I just read that whole rant with an “effeminate lisp”. It has got to be the funniest thing I have ever heard.

Your comment was perfect.

What’s a “furry”?

 

[religioussoup]

A single parent family is just that…a single parent family. Nothing wrong with it at all. It is just different than a normal family.

So if single parent families can be accepted as families, even though their not normal, why can’t you accept homosexual parent families, even though they also aren’t normal?

 

[religioussoup]

I just asked two kids, ages 5 and 7, what a “family” is.

Their response:
“People who sometimes live together who help each other and love each other forever and have dinner with each other.”

So….there is truth.

.

Thank you. Whoever said that they do not know the difference between “family” and “tribe” needs to rethink a lot of their thoughts.

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

So if single parent families can be accepted as families, even though their not normal, why can’t you accept homosexual parent families, even though they also aren’t normal?

A single parent family is a family that is generally referred to as a “single parent family” because it is different from a normal family.

A homosexual family is the height of abnormality. To be accepted it would have to be termed “a homosexual family” to distinguish it from a normal family.

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

Thank you. Whoever said that they do not know the difference between “family” and “tribe” needs to rethink a lot of their thoughts.

I did do some rethinking and have come to the conclusion that there some rather confused children out there…God help us.

 

[meltzerboy]

I call a normal family a family. Because the** VAST majority** of families consist of Mommies, Daddies, and Children produced by the Mommy and Daddy. Anything else is different. Not wrong or evil…just different…and should be differentiated as such.

You can call a herd of Buffalo a family, but it IS different from a human family.

Come on, Zoltan. Of course a herd of buffalo is different from a human family! But the old television days of the nuclear family, which consisted of a Mommy, a Daddy, 2.5 kids, Spot, and Fluffy, who lived in suburbia USA in an all-White neighborhood with a white picket fence and a home with 1.5 cars in the garage are in the considerable minority today, for better and worse.

(Don’t worry, I’ll split the money with you anyhow as soon as I receive it. LOL)

 

[meltzerboy]

I did do some rethinking and have come to the conclusion that there some rather confused children out there…God help us.

If you’re first coming to this realization, you’re apparently not a teacher.

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

Come on, Zoltan. Of course a herd of buffalo is different from a human family! But the old television days of the nuclear family, which consisted of a Mommy, a Daddy, 2.5 kids, Spot, and Fluffy, who lived in suburbia USA in an all-White neighborhood with a white picket fence and a home with 1.5 cars in the garage are in the considerable minority today, for better and worse.

Was that so bad?

(Don’t worry, I’ll split the money with you anyhow as soon as I receive it. LOL)

You, sir are a true gentleman:thumbsup:

 

[meltzerboy]

For decades, homosexualists have been using circumlocutions to insinuate their lifestyle into common parlance. Lover, partner, domestic partner, etc. So it is only fair that we offer circumlocutions so that we do not sully the word “family” to apply it to homosexuals playing house.

So let’s see, what else could we call it? A confab? A gaggle of gays? I’m open to more suggestions.

A family.

The meaning of the word has changed. That doesn’t mean it has been sullied. There have always been so-called normal families in which one member is an alcoholic, or a crossdresser (not necessarily gay), or suffering from schizophrenia, or having a sexual fetish, etc. That does not disqualify the unit as a family.

When I was a child, one of my friend’s parents were both gay: a male gay and a female gay (lesbian). However, they raised their son (I believe he was their biological child) and he was not gay. What would you consider that arrangement, certainly not the norm?