Marriage has always been about promoting the best possible upbriginging of children.
Wrong. Not true historically. Not true theologically. Not true legally. Try to find a verse in the Bible that supports this.
I defy anyone to tell me that single parent "families" produce equal or better results.
Does the data show that two parent households are better. Sure they are. All the more reason to get kids who have no family into them. But then you must also admit that all results are individual. Barak Obama, Bill Clinton and Alexander Hamilton seem to have done fine.
Today even single parents in poverty are succeeding at a considerable rate despite every effort of so-called conservatives to take away every bit of help they have.
The question we ought to be asking ourselves is this: How much more successful could the children of single parents be if they had programs like Headstart,, medical care, parents who were paid a livable wage, and just a little respect from the assholes who call them welfare queens and carp about their statistical disadvantages.
Now I see this:
Old hat said: Gays have been allowed to adopt for the last couple of decades. As far as i know the number of children in care hasn't declined as a result.
That is preposterous. It is an idiotic statement. Please think about it rather than make me explain it to you.
For the record, i think gay adoption would be better than having kids languish in care homes.
As long as those gays aren't married? Is that what you are saying? Didn't you just post something about single parent households.......oh never mind.
However, the clamour for gay marriage is symptomatic of society forgetting the purpose of Marriage.
Just the opposite. It is society remembering the purpose of marriage. I married my wife when I was 55. She was much younger. We had no intention of having children. I just attended the marriage of two 71 year olds the other day. Remind me again why I got married.
The other main symptom being the destruction of the nuclear family; which leads to so many children ending up in care in the first place.
And this was going on LONG before same-sex marriage was even a blip on anyone's radar.
Do let me correct you about something though. There is no such legal entity as "gay marriage". There is such a thing as same-sex marriage. There is no requirement that one be gay to marry another man nor lesbian to marry another woman.