Homosexual Marriage Arguments - Truthful Slogans?

Homosexual activists have done a great job advancing their cause with slick moralistic slogans about equal rights, discrimination, and so forth. As we will see, few, if any, of the pro-gay marriage slogans tell the truth. They sound good to a passive audience, but upon closer analysis, they are exposed as half-truths and deceptive distortions.

The activists have been able to get away with that because our fast-paced lives and sound-bite media provide the perfect environment for propaganda to replace truth. It only takes ten seconds to utter a lie, but it can often take ten minutes to provide enough evidence to explode that lie. The problem for the truth is that there is no such thing as a ten-minute sound bite (that’s why this is a book, not a slogan).

Gay Marriage Arguments - False Premises 
The questions below help expose the false premises behind arguments for gay marriage. Take a minute to marinate on each of these questions and consider how you would respond. If you are honest, I think that your common sense responses will help expose the fallacies hidden in most pro-gay marriage arguments:

1. Are all kinds of sexual contact the same? Is sexual contact ever unhealthy and/or unloving?
2. Are people ever born with conditions that are not normal and sometimes harmful?
3. Should the government promote harmful behavior?
4. Is there any difference between sexual desires (orientation) and sexual behavior?
5. Should people act on every desire they have?
6. Must the government recognize every desire people have as a right?
7. Is there a difference between skin color and sexual behavior?
8. Are children usually better off with a mom and a dad, or is parenting irrelevant to their development?
9. What’s more beneficial to a society—endorsing homosexuality or endorsing good parenting?
10. Should the government endorse behavior that is usually harmful but in rare exceptions is not?
11. Is there a difference between religion and morality?
12. If marriage has been weakened by liberalized divorce laws, does it make sense to weaken it further by liberalized marriage laws?
13. What would be the effect on society if everyone lived faithfully in natural marriage?
14. What would be the effect on society if everyone lived faithfully in same-sex marriage?

Now that you have considered these questions, let’s look at each pro-gay marriage argument specifically. We’ll see how these questions apply as we proceed.


Gay Marriage Arguments - Consider these Statements

• Don’t put discrimination in the Constitution. - Isn't discrimination already in the constitution? Find out how this playing into the argument on same-sex marriage.


• Homosexual Argument - Homosexuality is like race. Homosexuals are a class of people like African-Americans. - Being gay is comparable to being African American. Being against homosexuals is like being racist.


• Homosexual Argument: Gay Equal Rights, We want equal rights! - Is the government responsible to recognize every desire as a right? Do marriage rules apply to everyone?


• Homosexuals cannot change. - Thousand of homosexuals can testify that change is possible! How is is possible? Learn here.


• Homosexuals Were Born that Way - Is homosexuality a result of nature or nurture? What do the facts say?


• I know loving homosexual couples with children who have been together for years. - What is the most important factor in child development? What does that have to do with gay marriage?


• Opposing gay marriage is bigotry. - Is the opposition to same sex marriage based in bigotry or reason? Find out here.


• Opposition to same-sex marriage is a violation of the separation of church and state. - Does this argument hold and weight? Where does it break down? What does it mean to legislate morality?


• Opposition to gay marriage is hate speech. - Is it hate speech to oppose gay marriage? Is there any basis for hate? Why not?


• Opposition to same-sex marriage is like opposition to interracial marriage. - Is there a comparison between gay marriage and interracial marriage? Find out of one exists.


• Gay marriage is about love. Who could be against that? - Why does the state endorse marriage?


• Some marriages do not produce children. - Is this a good argument for gay marriage? Read the response and see the three reasons.


• We need to be tolerant. - What is the difference between tolerance and love? Which is needed in the gay marriage debate?


• Weren’t you born a heterosexual? - Is someone born gay or straight? Or are we just born as males and females?


• You are just a homophobe! - Is there a rational basis for being against gay marriage? Find out the facts here.


• You ought not judge! -

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