Why is gay marriage wrong?

Okay, so I have read up on this and heard opin­ions on both sides of the argument.

Pre­dom­i­nantly reli­gious peo­ple say being gay is wrong in the first place, so of course they’ll object to the mar­riage of two peo­ple of the same gen­der. But that’s their reli­gious opin­ion speak­ing out there.

So before I go any fur­ther into explain­ing any argu­ment, I’ll say this: I don’t believe in reli­gion which also means I don’t think reli­gion should be involved when it comes to any sort of pol­i­tics which effects the public.

Places like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Ara­bia and other coun­tries not just in the Mid­dle East are good exam­ples for the world to look at and to see why reli­gion shouldn’t be involved.

Reli­gion clearly has not stepped up fast enough to a chang­ing mind­set and world which thinks gay mar­riage will in the end become a right.  - Just my opin­ion. I really do believe that gay mar­riage will become a right.

But I’ve heard argu­ments from reli­gion say­ing it is unnat­ural, which then leads to argu­ments say­ing why you shouldn’t be allowed to marry your cousin or close fam­ily mem­bers. — As by law in most West­ern coun­tries it is ille­gal to marry close fam­ily mem­bers due to the issues that come with inbreed­ing; such as birth defects.

But then I guess you are going argue to that those 2 close fam­ily mem­bers may not have sex, although unlikely, which is prob­a­bly why there is a law for that. I kind of see it as a method of con­trol­ling whether or not birth defects would take place due to inbreed­ing, as by mak­ing it ille­gal and that throws that ques­tion out the win­dow or sim­ply it tries to pre­vent birth defects.

Now, peo­ple would say  that gay peo­ple bring AIDS and HIV to the med­ical argu­ment, but this is sim­ply not the case when one uses appro­pri­ate pro­tec­tion. Where this is sim­ply not the case when it comes to inbreed­ing as there is no form of pro­tec­tion, other than decid­ing not to have sex. So the med­ical argu­ment doesn’t throw me off one bit.

Then you’ll lead to the argu­ment that gay peo­ple can­not repro­duce, and thus will cause the extinc­tion of the human race. — Even though by some mar­gin the world is grow­ing sig­nif­i­cantly by pop­u­la­tion and there are mil­lions of chil­dren who have no par­ents. Surely in that respect a gay cou­ple would do more to look after that child than an orphan­age would, and in other respects they could be poten­tially bet­ter at par­ent­ing than straight cou­ples. — I don’t see how reli­gious peo­ple can miss details out like that, yet claim that gay peo­ple are poten­tially bad par­ents when straight par­ents can be what they describe in a bad parent.

Why must a child have a father and mother when brought up?

They can never back that up with fact. I browse Red­dit while at work, and it was beau­ti­ful as I saw a per­son who had just grad­u­ated from Uni­ver­sity next to her par­ents who are both men. It seems she has done well for her­self and that her par­ents did well in bring­ing her up and edu­cat­ing her. Can this be said about a lot of par­ents who are straight? The answer to that is yes but then there are those par­ents who are actu­ally bad par­ents; it doesn’t come down to whether you are gay.

In the end it comes down to the indi­vid­u­als that bring up the chil­dren, it doesn’t fac­tor at-all in my opin­ion, whether they are gay. Gay par­ents doesn’t sud­denly equal: bad at par­ent­ing. That is clearly the wrong def­i­n­i­tion of ‘bad par­ent­ing’ which reli­gious folk like to slan­der on about gay people/couples. At the end of the day, I think it is big­oted to look down upon gay peo­ple and to involve reli­gion into pub­lic law by say­ing “that’s wrong” because my reli­gion says so.

When opin­ions evolve…

Quite a few decades ago, you wouldn’t have had any pub­lic sup­port for the right of gay mar­riage, but in a free-thinking soci­ety opin­ions evolve and peo­ple start to change their minds on issues like this.

They don’t look to reli­gion as the answer to every­thing and they form their opin­ions when soci­ety changes and things that weren’t accept­able become more acceptable.

But I think it is big­oted in every sense of the def­i­n­i­tion for gov­ern­ments like the UK’s to not allow gay mar­riage based on reli­gion. — When that same coun­try and even other reli­gions within that coun­try denounce the treat­ment of gay peo­ple in other countries.

It’s time for every­one to start evolv­ing their way of think­ing and not hold back the rest of us who want to advance with­out reli­gious opin­ion get­ting in the way.