Furthermore, this isn't to say Christians and the like shouldn't protest and get laws passed that they feel are important. These people are people before they're robots for religion, I hope; but just as we must avoid stepping on their freedoms, they must avoid stepping on ours (if I was gay and found the perfect guy who made me happy and I knew the comfort of a marriage/proper civil union ((government shouldn't recognize straight marriage whatsoever, civil unions for all)), no one would have a right to tell me I'm not allowed to be happy). The difference lies in stuff like banning homosexual marriage (it's too big of a thing to stop having the government recognize marriage indefinitely, so we're stuck with making this an equality issue and thus we have no right to decide who gets to love and in what way), over a law that would only affect people if they specifically wanted it to.   See 3 other replies

I understand your anger, but yeah man, you're being just as judgmental. I mean, it's fine to point our the obvious, that she was over the line with her own hatred and was blind to compassion by her overbearing beliefs, but your side comments about swift kicking of the buttocks brings you straight down to her level and allows compassion blinding hatred to fester. She has a right to believe what she wants so long as she doesn't affect/change the lives of anyone around her. She's obviously working at doing that, but a swift kick would only make her feel justified. Anyways; religion is the ultimate one-upper. It exists to give people purpose, to allow people to go through life without the overwhelming dread of this simply being it, to see our loved ones when we die; but more or less it also exists so that people can bring the social-economic classes to the spiritual realm and be able to laugh at those in poverty (non-believers) and to revel in their greatness with rich (believers) like-minded individuals who want nothing more than to continue feeling better than everyone else. If this isn't the case, you wouldn't find a single Christian/religious person out there who forced their belief/way of life on everyone else (this includes protesting what they don't agree with and getting laws passed) on anything more than a passing comment/question due to truthfully wanting to see this or that person in the afterlife. If they really cared about people and wanted to spread the love of God, it wouldn't be done through intolerance, hatred, scare tactics, false statistics, manipulation, coercion, and the like. Don't get me wrong though, there's a good deal of people out there who are the perfect religion believing people I just listed; there just isn't enough of them to quell the tide of hatred from false Christians/believers.   See 3 other replies

Let's be honest here: statistics are easy to manipulate and most times you can say anything in a percentage form and someone out there will believe it. There's no real way to test what sort of families do better than others because every family has a million different variables at play every day. The only way to get anywhere close to a good statistic would be to educate the world on homosexuality so that the kids wouldn't feel teased or pressured at school, where these things would be accepted or at least understood in a mature fashion, so that everything could be seen for how it is and not how other people have affected the numbers by being intolerable.   See 4 other replies

Seriously, so many bigoted people talk about compassion and love and caring, wanting what's best for children, but yet rather than adopt orphaned kids or send money to feed starving children (through a channel that works and isn't a mask for profit), they focus and attack homosexual people.I understand that statistically males tend to have more relationships/break up for often, and are more promiscuous (as a male it's easy to see this statistic as truer data when understanding how powerful our sex drives can be and a majority of men tend to be in it for the nookie and fewer for a lasting meaningful relationship), but the data probably balances out when you look at how messed up the majority of straight couples homes are. Look at all the abuse, the brain washing on both sides of the fences, the alcoholism and rates of drug use; all families are just as likely to succumb to negative ratios of happiness. Being against homosexual adoption (while I find, 'cause I grew up with straight parents, it would be awkward and strange for me) is just another way to spread hatred and lack of understanding unconditional love.   See 4 other replies

We have so many orphans because of all of the horrid heterosexual couples.   See 4 other replies