Every man is created equal, right?
June 18, 2006Kadymae, OSNews reader, made a very striking blog post concerning the ‘issue’ of same-sex marriage in the US.
It is no suprise to many of the readers here that I’m proud to be living in a country where love is not patented by a 2000 year old book. Love is something personal, and marriage, which is the summit of love, should be possible for any human being on this planet, whether he be straight, gay, or both. It does not matter. Every man is created equal, right?
The United States, and just about any other state (with notable exceptions), is an apartheid state; one part of the people has rights the other part has not. I, as a straight man, can find me a nice girl, live together, get married, and make us some nice little kids. And in this country, a man and a man or a woman and a woman can do exactly the same. And yes, as a straight Dutchman, I am proud of this. It shows how much more civilised my Kingdom is compared to the rather barbaric and fundementalistic United States, France, Italy, and whatever other nation.
President Bush is hell-bent on fighting fundementalism in the Middle-East; however, he should start in his own country.
Im from sweden, so i totaly agree with you, but i have to ask, can gays adopt over there?
Comment by Svante Richter — June 18, 2006 @ 6:37 pm
but i have to ask, can gays adopt over there?
Yup, they can, even from abroad (but that’s rather silly, as no other country in the world allows its children to be adopted by homosexuals anyway).
As for whether I think homosexuals should adopt kids… That’s a different matter. I strongly believe that children need both a male and a female figure in parenting, and I simply am not sure if a kid with homosexual parents (esp. if it are two men) will survive the bullying in primary and high school.
So, yes, I applaud it’s possible, but am not sure if it is a wise thing to do to a child. The world, including my country, is far from ready for it yet.
Comment by Administrator — June 18, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
So, yes, I applaud it’s possible, but am not sure if it is a wise thing to do to a child.
yup, i agree, but the problem for that lies in society, not humatity itself, a myth that many of my freinds believe in.
Comment by Svante Richter — June 18, 2006 @ 6:48 pm
“as no other country in the world allows its children to be adopted by homosexuals”.
What about USA, Canada, Sweden, England, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Denmark, etc?
Use more internet before using superlatives in public.
Comment by internet — June 18, 2006 @ 9:35 pm
“Use more internet before using superlatives in public.”
I think YOU should. What I mean is this: if a gay Dutch couple wants to adopt a kid, the country from which that kid is will NOT allow it the moment they find out the couple is gay; and since that’s easily discernable since contact between the two parties is needed, it is essentially impossible.
And yes, the US too does NOT allow this.
Comment by Administrator — June 18, 2006 @ 10:26 pm
A child needs a mother and a father. Period.
Nothing, NOTHING can replace a mother and a father figure in a child’s early life. THIS IS HOW NATURE WORKS.
You’ll have kids someday and you’ll understand. Leave propaganda out of this.
Comment by stefan — June 19, 2006 @ 2:00 am
I agree with Stefan. A kid needs both a female and a male parent. It is not just the society issue that will create problems to the kid for having two fathers or two mothers, but also nature itself. The mother is the person that you run to when your father chastised you for something. In a two-male home, to whom do you run to?
Other than that, I don’t really care if gay people get married. But when it comes to adopting kids, while they HAVE the RIGHT to parenting, I am not sure an adopted kid will win out of the situation. Not because the two parents might not be good parents (I am sure they will try their best), but simply because NATURE has its own requirements too regarding male/female parenting.
Comment by Eugenia — June 19, 2006 @ 3:42 am
As said, I agree with you, Eugenia. I find it important that homosexuals CAN adopt children, but whether they SHOULD, is a different matter.
However, the same goes for divorce. Divorce can be way more devastating to a child than having gay parents, that’s one thing I’m sure of.
Comment by Administrator — June 19, 2006 @ 11:03 am
The genitlia someone has does not make that person a good parent. In 2-hetero-parent homes, the fact that one parent has a penis, and one a vagina, plays NO PART in whether that family is a good environment for the kids to be raised. Growing up, how big of a deal was it that you had one parent with a penis, and one with a vagina? I doubt it was that big of a deal.
A LOT of families (in the US, at least) are single parent. And even then, the genitalia that parent has plays very little role in how good of an environment that is for the kid.
There is ONE criteria, however, that does make a huge difference in the enviornment: love. How much love and care is shown the kids makes a HUGE difference in how well they are brought up. And, I’ll go out on a limb here and say: a homosexual couple who had to make a very concertive effort to have kids, will most likely show as much if not more love and care to those kids than a straight couple who got pregnant without planning to.
Comment by Kip — June 22, 2006 @ 8:06 pm