Essays! part 1

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Ugh. I should not have searched for ‘Proposition 8’ on Youtube. It pissed me off to the extent where I wrote this.

I’m jumping on the bandwagon and writing an essay on why Proposition 8 is basically a load of bullshit.

Let’s sit down. Have some tea, cake. Whatever strikes your fancy. Let’s look at some of the arguments that anti-gay marriage people make.

Many of them use the Bible as their backing. Way to fail, guys. Here’s a few other things the Bible says that you all conveniently ignore because they’re ‘obsolete.’

‘Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you.’ (Leviticus 11:12, New International Version)

So that shrimp cocktail you had the other night at your brother’s birthday party? Yeah. You just hooked yourself up with a one-way ticket to hell. ‘Oh, a little shellfish never hurt anyone!’ Alright. And gay marriage is hurting you how? It’s kind of ridiculous high the Bible equates lobster to gay marriage in terms of sin. Another thing that’s forgotten.

‘…But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.’ (Deuteronomy 22:20-21, New American Standard Bible)

Wow, a lot of girls would be dead then, wouldn’t they? Apparently, we’ve moved on from those ‘barbaric’ methods and standards. So basically, what we’re saying here is that a slut is more acceptable than two loving people who are committed to each other. That doesn’t really score you any points, either. And who can forget the famous passage denouncing divorce?

‘But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.’ (Matthew 5:32, New International Version)

Then the large majority of American people are going to hell. Did you know that California had 4.3 million divorces in 1990 alone? (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/lif_div_rat-lifestyle-divorce-rate) So don’t you dare tell us that gay marriage isn’t okay because the Bible says so, you raging hypocrites.

Let’s move on to the subject of children. ‘They’ll be corrupted by the parents!’ How so? Look at what an article from fucking Traditional Values says!

“According to a summary of this study by Knight-Ridder, studies have estimated that domestic violence among gay males ranges from 12% to 36%, which is roughly the same as for heterosexual women.” (http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/statistics_on_homosexual_lifestyle.pdf)

So even looking at the worst case scenario, there’s no difference. You’re worried that the children will grow up to be gay? Aside from you being a bigoted intolerant asshole, you are also apparently a paranoid retard, because look at this!

“Studies asking the children of gay fathers to express their sexual orientation showed the majority of children to be heterosexual, with the proportion of gay offspring similar to that of a random sample of the population. An assessment of more than 300 children born to gay or lesbian parents in 12 different samples shows no evidence of “significant disturbances of any kind in the development of sexual identity among these individuals”” (http://adoption.about.com/od/gaylesbian/f/becomegay.htm)

And more!

“While the debate over same-sex marriage has grown to encompass the children raised in these families, its main focus remains the parents themselves. Homosexual parents are concerned parents with parenting styles much like their heterosexual counterparts. In fact, Flaks (1995) found in a study of lesbian parents that by judging parenting skills using the PASS, “lesbian mothers had more parenting awareness skills than heterosexual parents” (p. 111). Far from being insufficient parents, Flaks shows that same-sex parents are just as capable (even more so by some measures) as heterosexual parents.”

(http://www.goshen.edu/~gregk/Children%20in%20Homosexual%20Households.pdf)