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‘No child has two dads’ billboards trigger LGBT activists

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New billboards highlight the lies of homosexual ‘parenting’ – prompting hostile reactions from leftists online.  Billboards bearing the straightforward message, “No child has two dads. No child has two moms,” have begun appearing across the United States to push back on homosexual adoption and highlight the importance of marriage. The billboards are the work of Them Before Us , a “global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father,” by “putting children before adults in every conversation about marriage and family.” The group highlighted the new billboards on its Substack, noting that even though “no person in any society has ever thought to object to (the message) for thousands of years,” after just a few days, they provoked a sharp, hostile reaction on social media. In the Substack post, Them Before Us’ Josh Wood took the opportunity to address the most common arguments in favour of homosexual “parenting.” He wrote that practices such as in vitro fertilisation...

Why I am against gay marriage

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Unlike the vast majority of cases against same sex marriage I am not  going to use arguments of procreation, or compare same-sex parenting to heterosexual parenting. I will use neither religious arguments, nor natural law arguments, nor arguments based off of preference.  Rather this case, which is a secular case, made by a secular writer, emphasizes overlooked aspects of the empirical costs of legalizing same-sex marriage.  Some of the overlooked aspects include the ways in which same sex marriage expands the marital institution to include gender identity , transgender individuals, transsexual individuals, bisexual individuals who want a same-sex marriage, and how these new dimensions will impact the marriage institution. The marriage institution will be impacted not because same-sex couples can’t procreate within their union, but rather quite the opposite:  the fact that there are many same-sex couples raising children will change family law within ...

Same-sex ‘marriage’ also fails the kinship test

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The procreation and care of children play a central role in the current debates over the meaning of marriage. For supporters of the conjugal view of marriage, children are the dominant reality driving the state’s recognition of marriage. Because sex leads to babies, the state wants to channel sex into a stable relationship that bonds both a mother and a father to their children. Those two parents, the mom and the dad, are then present from birth through their child’s emergence into adulthood as a constant source of love, education, and provision. As the social science presented at  Public Discourse  and  else where  has documented, a married mom and dad provide the best possible home for raising their children. And so the state recognizes, supports, and promotes marriages—for the sake of the children. Making children the integral attribute of marriage has shaped the legal and political debate over marriage, and it has led to several obvious objections from those...