What Rights (If Any) Should Be Awarded To Homosexual Couples?

strawman.

nobody has asked to deprive children of their father or mother.

 

Nobody said anything about civil unions, as well states with civil unions prohibit closely related couples. Grasping for some irrelevant tangent again.

You make no sense.

 

You are the one wanting to inject yet another basis of discrimination.

 

Nobody alleged detrimental effects. Run after that srawman. Im sure you can catch it. And kids on AVERAGE do better when born to their married, biological parents. Individual cases wont change that fact.

 

You must be a homosexual. Dont embrace your victimhood so tightly. Its biology. Has nothing to do with your sexual orientation.

"matrimonium is an institution involving a mother, mater. The idea implicit in the word is that a man takes a woman in marriage, in matrimonium ducere, so that he may have children by her."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage

IS NOT intended to exclude homosexual couples, it is intended to include heterosexual couples, the only couples who procreate. Ones homosexuality just isnt relevant.

 

I agree that allowing homosexual couples receive the same benefits as heterosexual couples is a step forward; I have no opposition to that. However, the ultimate goal should be to not have these special benefits at all.

Typically, when we're talking about marriage in a political debate, we are referring to government endorsed marriage. Gay marriage, in all 50 states, is legal if it is not endorsed by the government. The whole argument is that homosexual couples should be endorsed as well. I say... okay, that's less discriminatory, but if you really want to get rid of this discrimination, abolish the endorsement altogether.

Ohhhhhhhhh it's "intended" !! Just like Jim Crow laws were intended! Now it all makes sense!

And I suppose sterile straight couples can't have endorsed marriage, either, right?

Nope -- I'm the one who sees a discriminatory institution being a little less discriminatory as a step forward, although the goal is to allow this institution to fall within the voluntary, private hands.

 

I am saying that when people claim that civil unions are the same as marriages, they are being untruthful.

 

If a heterosexual couple has to procreate unnatually, why would the State take an interest in them when they can't create children the proper way?

 

http://www.politicalforum.com/gay-lesbian-rights/222737-what-rights-if-any-should-awarded-homosexual-couples.html#post4855461

New thread above.