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For centuries, traditional marriage has been the bedrock institution of society, providing stability and sustainability. Only traditional marriage produces children, which perpetuates future generations.
While same-sex couples can adopt, or be inseminated, this is not the norm. For posterity, society has a vested interest in preserving traditional marriage. Countless studies prove that children thrive best when reared in a home with a mother and a father. Children need the unique qualities that each gender brings into the nuturing process. Also, a monomagamous relationship between a man and a woman helps protect from STD's.
Biology is important in that same-sex marriage debate. It doesn't take a genius to know that a man's and a woman's body parts naturally fit together. The anatomy of opposite sexes was made to compliment each other. Two men or two women can't physically compliment one another. There are also other differences between the sexes than just physical. Emotional and psychological differences exist. A man cannot meet all the needs of a man and vice versa.
Homosexuals say same-sex marriage is their civil right, comparing their quest for marriage equality to blacks in their struggle for equality. But homosexuals have always had all the rights of citizenship, unlike blacks. They can vote, own property, hold a job. They've never been bought and sold as slaves, or had separate bathrooms or drinking fountains. Homosexuality is not self-evident the way black is.
Homosexuality is not inborn. If it were, from which parent was it inherited? No validated scientific study has ever proven there is a "gay gene." Everyone is equal and worthy of respect, but not all ideas or behaviors are equal. Granting legal status to a behavior is wrong. Is adultry morally equal to infidelity?
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