http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/991 A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/991#comment-73163 The State Should Get Out of the Marriage Business @ Ales Rarus Thu, 29 May 2008 02:57:03 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archives/991#comment-73163 [...] Opposing viewpoints in favor of state involvement in marriage can be found at Taki's mag and an old post on this blog, written by an anonymous author.Funky [...] http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/991#comment-20939 An Exchange on Gay Christians (Part II) | Science » Blog Archive » An Exchange on Gay Christians (Part II) Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:02:35 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archives/991#comment-20939 [...] P.P.S. I also thought you might be interested in reading a secular argument against allowing gay marriage. [...] http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/991#comment-16322 don't be a hate-uh Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:25:02 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archives/991#comment-16322 jon stewart says it all: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxdCekRVOgo http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxdCekRVOgo]]> http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/991#comment-13635 El Guapo di Nacho Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:59:12 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archives/991#comment-13635 I wrote the article Advogado commented on, and he seems to have missed my point. Whenever one is arranging governmental policies and social structures, one looks at general trends and tendencies, not specific cases. Society has no reason, in general, to encourage homosexuals to marry. They do not, as a group, raise children. There may be isolated instances where this goes on, but by and large they do not seek to care for children, so society has no reason to give them benefits for doing so. There may be instances where children have been raised by wolves, but it would be waste of time and money to encourage and subsidize wolf households and implement governmental policies whereby infants are entrusted to wolves. Besides, the incidence of homosexuals couples adopting is very rare indeed. Furthermore, the incidence of homosexual couples staying together for long is also very rare. A psychologist familiar with the statistics of the high failure rate of homosexual "marriages" referred to the idea of them as "a sick joke." It's clear to me that advocate of homosexual "marriage" are attacking the institution of marriage from behind (no pun intended). http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/991#comment-12813 Advogado de Diabo Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:28:58 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archives/991#comment-12813 <blockquote>One would be hard pressed to make a case that there is any good served by encouraging homosexual persons to marry.</blockquote> It not hard at all. You have a homosexual couple living down the hall in your apartment building raising two children. Tax breaks could allow a parent to stay home with their children to make sure they become educated and keep out of trouble. Financial benefits such as the extension of health insurance to include family members would have obvious benefits to the spouse and family as a whole. And the benefits of marriage may encourage them to have more children who could do things like serve in the military, pay taxes, and become productive members of the work force. One would be hard pressed to make a case that there is any good served by encouraging homosexual persons to marry.

It not hard at all. You have a homosexual couple living down the hall in your apartment building raising two children. Tax breaks could allow a parent to stay home with their children to make sure they become educated and keep out of trouble. Financial benefits such as the extension of health insurance to include family members would have obvious benefits to the spouse and family as a whole. And the benefits of marriage may encourage them to have more children who could do things like serve in the military, pay taxes, and become productive members of the work force.]]>