Forum: Same-sex families -- model or immoral homes?

Society is not ready for gay families

Society is full of conservatives who deny expressing their beliefs to others. Gays and marriage? Gays and children?

As if there is really a question. As if the average, everyday person actually sees the creation of gay families as fit. According to the USA Today/CNN Gallup Poll, 68 percent of people oppose same-sex marriages. Yet, no one speaks up.

There comes a time when a person has to stand up for how he or she truly feels and stop tiptoeing over issues. That time is now.

It may be that liberals see gay marriages as freedom of expression and that their right to have and raise children is just and politically correct.

But are gays really taking the time to stop and think of the child? Does it not come to mind the ridicule and disturbance a child will encounter while being raised by two parents of the same sex?

People are cruel. That is an indisputable fact. But why then would gays knowingly subject a child to the learned behavior of mankind?

As if it is not enough that gay marriages are a far cry from the average family consistency. Justification of that statement lies in the fact that the sole purpose of marriage in society has never been about the people, but about family and the desire to reproduce.

Social order is by every means violated when two individuals of the same sex marry and utter chaos is evoked when the two decide to create what can not possibly be called a family.

Family involves reproduction. Bottom line: if it were meant for gays to regenerate, there would be a natural ability to do so.

It is safe to say that the counter-argument to these statements stems around the point that love can conquer all; that if two people can provide a loving, nurturing home, then that is enough.

But that argument simply disregards reality. It is an apparition created by frightened individuals who are afraid to take a stand as well as selfish gays who feel a need to be loved or give love for one reason or another to a child that is up for a life of bitter confusion.

If love could guide us through life, there would surely be less crime, unemployment and other hardships. But that is unreasonable. Love cannot conquer all.

Promoters of gay marriages producing children may also say that the concept promotes gay role models for young children who are unaware of their own sexuality. On the contrary.

The idea benefits gays and disregards the long-term morals of family and consistency that are desperately and constantly trying to be maintained and instilled throughout young Americans.

That is not to say that gay couples will only raise gay children. Nor is it to criticize the gay population or call them kinky sex addicts.

Truthfully, the problem is really on society itself but that does not help the children.

Society will not change over night and therefore we are forced to acclimate and do what it takes to lead a happy life (one free from unnecessary ridicule and confusion) and provide the same for our children.

It is not about affection or love that can be provided by gay parents or otherwise. It is about fitting into a lifestyle that nature intended. Gay marriages that produce children disregard nature.

They disregard what is natural and normal. But most importantly, they disregard the child.

Jennifer L. Bowman is the City Editor for the Daily Forty-Niner.