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It will never happen in The South.
Yes it will. We may be some of the last. But it will happen.
It will never happen in The South.
Not likely. The pendulum will swing back right long before there's any serious movement to turn The South gay.Yes it will. We may be some of the last. But it will happen.
Not likely. The pendulum will swing back right long before there's any serious movement to turn The South gay.
Nah, you can wish for that all you want. Ain't going to happen in my lifetime.Turn the south gay? You think allowing gays to marry will turn us gay?
Its not a pendulum its people. And once people see that the world does not end and their marriages are not effected there will be no reason to change back.
Its coming to the south.
Nah, you can wish for that all you want. Ain't going to happen in my lifetime.
Look you can wish to turn gay all you want, but it ain't going to happen in The South.When the courts and the state gov't declare it legal, what will you do? You have one vote just like everyone else.
In your lifetime (or at least my 52 years) gays have come out of the closet and been free to live without shame. Laws against sexual acts between consenting adults have been struck down. Schools have been integrated.
In 1957 many people would have said those things would not have happened in their lifetime.
They were wrong too.
Look you can wish to turn gay all you want, but it ain't going to happen in The South.
You want the US Gov't to declare that "marriage" is defined as one man and one woman. And you want them to do this based on religion.
And yet you want liberals to respect the constitution?
The nation will turn gay? Wow.This is not about me, no matter how you try and make it. I have no wish to turn any way but how I am. This is not about people being or turning gay.
This is about what is coming to our entire nation.
You can wish and hope it doesn't all you want. But it will happen.
The nation will turn gay? Wow.
So, how long do you give 'dawg before he gets married?
Wow is right if you think thats what I said.
Gay marriage is coming to our entire nation. It won't turn anyone gay.
Actually it will: the adoptive children of gay parents.Wow is right if you think thats what I said.
Gay marriage is coming to our entire nation. It won't turn anyone gay.
Actually it will: the adoptive children of gay parents.
Let me help you with some factual information:
"Unfortunately, many people are not aware of the three decades of research showing that children of gay or lesbian parents are just as mentally healthy as children with heterosexual parents, notes Cerbone. One such study, published in Child Development (Vol. 75, No. 6, pages 1,886–1,898) in 2004, compares a group of 44 teenagers with same-sex couples as parents with an equal number of teenagers with opposite-sex couples as parents. All participants were part of a national, randomly selected sample of teenagers from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
"There were very few group differences between the kids who had been brought up by same- or opposite-sex parents," says Patterson, who conducted the research with students Jennifer Wainright and Stephen Russell, PhD, now an associate professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. One group difference that Patterson was surprised to find: Children of gay and lesbian parents reported closer ties with their schools and classmates. However, says Patterson, the difference was small and needs to be studied further."
No link and no report of gayness in your post.
There's nothing in that study about the sexual orientation of the adopted kids.The post showed the result of studies of children of gay and lesbian parents. This disputes your claim that allowing gays to marry would turn their adopted kids gay.
You want a link? ok, I'll get one.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec05/kids.html
And to add more from that same site:
"Research shows that families headed by gay and lesbian parents are as healthy as traditional families, but misperceptions linger."
There's nothing in that study about the sexual orientation of the adopted kids.
Then why doesn't the study say that? After all, that was what you were arguing, wasn't it?It is a study about the children of gay and lesbian parents. Adopted kids are not going to "turn gay" because their parents are gay.