12
Questions For Pro-Same Sex Marriage Presidential Candidates
GrassTopsUSA
Guest Commentary
By Gregg Jackson
08-23-07
1. To those who
say: "Banning homosexual marriage is a form of
discrimination, similar to the banning of
interracial marriages, which makes homosexuals into
second class citizens."
Anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws
were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1967 (Loving
v. Virginia) because they frustrated the
core purpose of marriage in order to sustain a
racist legal order. Since the decision didn't
change the fact that marriage was still between
one man and one woman, how is banning "same
sex marriage" discriminatory?
2. To those who
say: "Homosexuality is a normal sexual orientation
that God intended for some people and is not a
perversion of normal sexuality."
I am not aware
of a single place in the Bible where
homosexuality is not condemned by God as
unnatural, perverted, and sinful behavior. Can
you point to any place in the Bible where
homosexuality is not condemned by God? Also, if
in fact homosexuality is genetic, how do you
explain the thousands of former homosexuals who
are now straight?
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3. To those who ask:
"Jesus preached tolerance, not judgment. Who are we to pass judgment
on homosexuals to say that they cannot marry?"
What exactly did Jesus say? I'm
not aware that the word "tolerance" even appears in the
Bible. Jesus did say, "Do not judge according to appearance,
but judge with righteous judgment." (John 7:24) In
other words Jesus commanded His followers not to pass judgment
based on how people look or perception, but He does command us
to make "righteous judgments" based on God's
righteousness. Do you think that -- considering Jesus'
definition of "judgment" -- He would have condoned two
males marrying one another when homosexuality is condemned
throughout the Bible?
4. To those who ask: "How
are two men or woman getting married threatening or damaging to a
heterosexual couple's marriage or life for that matter?
Because the legal definition of
marriage would be significantly altered -- no longer an
exclusive legal union between one man and one woman -- laws in
virtually every other area of our society would change too. My
children would be taught that homosexuality, along with a host
of other "sexual orientations" such as bi-sexuality and
"transgenderism" –- are both natural and healthy despite
the evidence to the contrary. If, at some point in the
foreseeable future, I taught my Sunday School class that the
Bible teaches that homosexuality is immoral and self
destructive, I could be charged with a "hate crime." If
I, as a small business owner, refused to hire a cross-dressing
homosexual, I could be sued and fined. Can you see how radically
redefining the oldest social institution in history will impact
many other areas of life for society as a whole?
5. To those who say:
"Homosexuals didn't choose to be homosexual and should have the same
rights that heterosexuals enjoy."
Those who are practicing
homosexuals already have the right to marry. They just can't
marry a person of the same sex, or two or more other people, or
any of their family members, etc…. Since homosexuals can
already legally marry, what specific "legal rights" are
homosexuals being deprived of?
6. To those who say:
"Fifty percent of all heterosexual marriages fail. It's hypocritical
to talk about how 'sacred' the institution is when 50% of all
marriages end up in divorce."
How will allowing homosexuals
to marry "strengthen" marriage especially given the fact
that most homosexuals have no desire to get married or stay in
long term monogamous relationships?
7. To those who say:
"Children need loving parents. Love can come from two men and two
women."
Why not two men and one women?
What about three men? If marriage is not an exclusive
arrangement between one man and one woman, then isn't it
hypocritical for homosexuals to say that marriage is not
exclusive in regards to traditional marriage -- one man and one
women -- but is exclusive in that it should also include and be
limited to two women or two men? After all, if all children need
are "loving parents" aren't three or four parents
superior to two?
8. To those who say:
"Children who are raised in same-sex homes turn-out as well, if not
better, as children raised in divorced households or in households
where the parent has re-married."
In one of the most
comprehensive studies ever completed on the impacts of divorce,
Dr. Judith S. Wallerstein, an author, psychologist, and
researcher with the University of California at Berkeley's
School of Social Welfare and Dr. Mavis Hetherington, a professor
of psychology at the University of Virginia, concluded that
divorce impacts children more dramatically and for longer
periods of time than most scholars and child psychologists ever
conceived. They found in their 25-year extensive study on the
effects of divorce on children, that "divorce is a long-term
crisis that was affecting the psychological profile of an entire
generation." Almost half of the children that they observed
were "worried, underachieving, self-deprecating, and
sometimes angry."
National studies show that children of divorce are more
aggressive toward their parents and teachers, experience more
depression, have more learning difficulties, are two to three
times more likely to be referred for psychological help at
school than their peers from intact families. More of them end
up in mental health care clinics, have earlier sexual activity,
have more children out of wedlock, marry with less frequency,
divorce with greater frequency and experience more psychological
problems than children of intact marriages.
Given this empirical evidence that the optimal environment for
raising a child is a two parent male-female family, why do you
condone intentionally depriving children of a mother and a
father, as is the case when homosexual couples have the same
legal rights as heterosexual couples, given how badly children
fare in single parent or divorced families?
9. To those who say:
"Children raised by homosexual parents adjust socially and
psychologically as well as those raised by heterosexual parents."
Same sex marriage supporters
cite the 2002 American Academy of Pediatrics' Report that states
that "a growing body of scientific literature demonstrates
that children who grow up with 1 or 2 gay or lesbian parents
fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social, and sexual
functioning as do children whose parents are heterosexual…"
Yet, they often fail to acknowledge that the report concluded
that, "the small and non-representative samples studied and
the relatively young age of most of the children suggest some
reserve," and that "[R]esearch exploring the diversity of
parental relationships among gay and lesbian parents is just
beginning." Aside from this "inconclusive" report,
can you cite any study that substantiates your claim?
10. To those who say:
"Preaching against homosexuality causes gay teenagers to commit
suicide."
This claim is largely based on
a debunked and discredited 1989 report by a special federal task
force on youth and suicide authored by gay activist Paul Gibson.
Dr. Louis Sullivan, the former Secretary of Health and Human
Services officially distanced himself and his department from
it. This report has been roundly criticized by many experts in
the field of teen suicide such as Professor David Shaffer, a
Columbia University psychiatrist who specializes in teen
suicides who concluded that Gibson's numbers seemed "more
hocus-pocus than math." A number of studies such as a 1986
University of California-San Diego study and one from Columbia
University showed no link between preaching against
homosexuality and gay suicides. Which studies can you cite that
show a link?
11. To those who say: "We
don't need to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same sex marriage.
It's something each individual state should vote on individually."
What about when voters are not
given the opportunity to amend their own constitutions to
legally define marriage as was the case in Massachusetts when
the state supreme court arbitrarily usurped the legislative
authority of the citizens to define marriage laws in the
Commonwealth?
12. To those who say:
"Homosexuality is a healthy and comfortable lifestyle."
Homosexuals die much earlier
than heterosexuals and have significantly higher rates of
suicide, rectal cancer, liver cancer, HIV, and other infectious
diseases than heterosexuals.
A study in the Lancet showed that homosexuals account for 3-4%
of all gonorrhea cases, 60% of all syphilis cases, and 17% of
all hospital admissions in the United States. They make up only
1-2% of the population. Another study in the New England Journal
of Medicine concluded the average homosexual has between 20 to
106 partners per year. The average heterosexual has 8 partners
in a lifetime. According to the U.S. Congressional Record from
1989, homosexuals live unhealthy lifestyles historically
accounting for the bulk of syphilis, gonorrhea, Hepatitis B,
"gay bowel syndrome" (which attacks the intestinal tract),
tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus. Given the plethora of
empirical evidence that shows how destructive and dangerous
homosexuality is, why do you claim it is "healthy?" Can
you point to any evidence that shows homosexuality is healthy or
normal?
Gregg Jackson is the nationally
best selling author of "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal
Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of
the Left from A to Z" (JAJ Publishing Aug 2006) and talk
radio show host heard on Boston's Talk Station WRKO.
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