Solving for "Q"
From an article by Cam Lindquist at 365gay.com
Origin located at
http://www.365gay.com/people/Lindquist/030104lindquist.htm
Sometimes in life, as well as Mathematics, an answer seems
to make sense until it is read in full context. Such as:
1) Homosexuality is not natural: much like eyeglasses,
contact lenses, and pacemakers.
2) Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce
children. Infertile couples and old people shouldn't
legally get married because their unions will not
yield offspring.
3) Obviously homosexual parents will only be able to raise
homosexual children because heterosexual parents only
raise heterosexual children.
4) Heterosexual marriage will become less meaningful if
homosexual marriage becomes legal because more than
half of all heterosexual marriages currently end in
divorce.
5) Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and
has not changed, so why change things now? For
instance women are still considered property, blacks
cannot marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
6) Homosexual marriage should be decided by Congress, not
the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures
have historically protected the rights of the
minorities through segregation and ignoring women's
suffrage.
7) Homosexual marriage is not supported by religion. In a
theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are
imposed on the entire country. That is why we have
only one religion in America.
8) Homosexual marriage will encourage people to be
homosexual in the same way that hanging around tall
people will encourage one to be tall or hanging
around Asian people will encourage one to be Asian.
9) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds
of crazy behavior such as people wanting to marry
animals because animals have equal rights to humans
and are capable of signing legal contracts.
10) Children can never succeed without male and female role
models in the home. That is why single parents are
forbidden to raise children.
11) Same-sex marriage will change the foundation of
society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a
long time and our society will not survive adapting
to new social norms. This has been historically proven when
cars, longer life spans, and space travel were
introduced.
12) Civil unions providing most of the same benefits as
marriage under a different name is better because a
"separate but equal" institution has been proven
constitutional such as the segregation of
African-Americans in the education system.
13) Homosexuals are not entitled to the rights a marriage
gives them such as joint tax returns, automatic next
of kin, and the ability to visit an ill spouse in the
hospital like their heterosexual counterparts because
they don't pay the same taxes heterosexuals pay and
therefore are not equal under the law.
14) Homosexual marriage would perpetuate the promiscuous
lifestyle "queer people" lead because anytime a
commitment is introduced into a relationship it
pushes the two parties toward infidelity as we have
seen with heterosexual marriages.
15) And finally, Same-Sex Marriage should not be made legal
because Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote the
Declaration of Independence, did not intend it to
include: Homosexuals, African Americans, Asians,
Native-Americans, Muslims, Jews, or Women. These
groups were internationally excluded when he wrote:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights. Among these are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed. That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness"