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Originally Posted by LoneWolf
I would love to hear some of these "rational" arguments against same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and gay hate crimes.
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If you believe that it's important to promote procreation and child rearing in intact nuclear families, it's rational to promote the kinds of living arrangements that make that most likely. One way to do it is to give special benefits to traditional marriages, but not to people who choose to live life in other arrangements (single, cohabitation, same sex couples, three or more adult partners, etc.).
If you believe that a child is best served by having a parent of each sex who live together in a committed relationship, then opposing adoption by single people or gay couples or groups of three or more is rational.
If you believe that the perpetrator of a cold blooded murder for cash or for revenge or for any other reason should face the same penalties as that of a cold blooded murder based on the hatred of a particular class of people, then opposition to hate crimes legislation is rational.
None of these require you to dislike or disapprove of gay people. I'd love to hear a response from you that isn't based on your own opinion about how convincing these reasons are.