Same-Sex Marriages and the Threat of Annihilation, Pt. 2

[Epistemes]

Hello,

The Catholic Education Resource Center states:

Reproduction is the fundamental occurrence on which, ultimately, the future of human life depends. That is the primary reason why marriage is important to society. In our highly individualistic societies, we tend to look only at its importance to individuals. That is necessary, but not sufficient in deciding on the future of marriage.

People advocating same-sex marriage argue that we should accept that the primary purpose of marriage is to give social and public recognition to an intimate relationship between two people, and, therefore, to exclude same-sex couples is discrimination. They are correct if the primary purpose of marriage is to protect an intimate pair-bond. But they are not correct if its primary purpose is to protect the inherently procreative relationship of opposite-sex pair-bonding or to protect an intimate relationship for the purposes of its procreative potential. When marriage is limited to opposite-sex couples, there is no need to choose between these purposes, because they are compatible with each other and promote the same goal. The same is not true if marriage is extended to include same-sex couples. That would necessarily eliminate marriage’s role in symbolizing and protecting the procreative relationship.

catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0063.html

The estimation of the world population as of July 2007 is 6,602,224,175.

Do same sex marriages honestly pose a threat to the survival of our species?

Shouldn’t we be concentrating on preserving our resources and our food supply for the millions that are born every year to heterosexual couples?

 

[RyanML]

Hello,

The Catholic Education Resource Center states:

The estimation of the world population as of July 2007 is 6,602,224,175.

Do same sex marriages honestly pose a threat to the survival of our species?

Shouldn’t we be concentrating on preserving our resources and our food supply for the millions that are born every year to heterosexual couples?

No and Yes…IMHO

 

[Blade_and_Blood]

Same-sex couples definitely do not pose any threat to our population… if anything, they may help it. Getting orphans out of orphanages (if they even call them that anymore) and into a loving home would be phenomenal.

And yeah, we totally need to drop the irrelevant issue of same-sex marriage and pay more attention to issues that actually endanger our world.

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood

 

[Starwynd]

Considering homosexuals make up at best three percent of any given population, then I’d say no it has no threat to survival.

But personally I see no real reason to deny them the right to marry.

Yes I know the Council Of Trent defined marriage that way in 1545. But it is still discrimination.

And as for me if civil unions were to give them the same benefits as marriage would I’d be all for civil unions. But often times civil unions are not recognized and can be overturned by the Defense Of Marriage Act.

 

[KingAlfred]

It’s not just the issue of reproduction. It’s also the emotional and psychological make-up of gays, in association with child-rearing. Growing up oppressed and in constant rebellion and/or denial, gays could reasonably be expected to suffer from a sharply anti-social disposition, which in turn could have negative effects on the children they might be allowed to raise as married couples. For example, one of my colleagues was raised by a lesbian couple, and she’s one of the most emotionally distraught and morally confused people I’ve ever known. Listening to her shrill rants against traditional Western society, as she perceives it, is actually scary. I want so desperately to either run away or tell her to shut up.

 

[RyanML]

It’s not just the issue of reproduction. It’s also the emotional and psychological make-up of gays, in association with child-rearing. Growing up oppressed and in constant rebellion and/or denial, gays could reasonably be expected to suffer from a sharply anti-social disposition, which in turn could have negative effects on the children they might be allowed to raise as married couples. For example, one of my colleagues was raised by a lesbian couple, and she’s one of the most emotionally distraught and morally confused people I’ve ever known. Listening to her shrill rants against traditional Western society, as she perceives it, is actually scary. I want so desperately to either run away or tell her to shut up.

You just described one of my heterosexual military friends who was raised in a very traditional (as in Latin Mass, SSPX, etc.) Catholic home with a stay at home mom, very hard working devoted father and 7 siblings.