Oh, and Sil......pretty much everyone has noticed that you're running from this question:
'How does denying marriage to same sex couples help their children?'
Your 'question' is loaded with assumptions. Mine isn't. And you can't answer. None of your ilk can.
Which is why you've lost 44 of 46 cases. And why things don't look particularly good for you in the USSC in June either. Your argument collapses when challenged. As it doesn't work.
Did you spam three posts on the last page to be sure this one was lost?
Okay Sil...lets play "what if"...what if today at noon the law changes and I'm no longer legally married to my life partner. How is that better for our children. How does that help THEM?
I'm sure some type of exceptions will be made for those duped into believing they were legally married in the interim, with the stipulation that nobody else can use their precedent as a means to dictate to the democratic rule of their state that they too must also be allowed in the future to illegally marry...so don't worry about that...
Time will adjust that miscarriage of justice..
What is in question is the future of ALL children, not just the present time myopic-consideration of just your children at the cost of the collective-concept of children's rights in general. I'll paste another post I just made to explain that in detail here..
..Here, the poster "Skylar" had been repeatedly accusing me of "not caring about children"....from my position in this debate. It answers your specific question to the letter I believe:
I said:
"The child to Skylar only has value if it is caught up in a homosexual lifestyle. If it is caught up in a polygamist lifestyle or an incest lifestyle, or a monosexual lifestyle (single parents) then suddenly it's not such a big deal if its parent(s) have the perks of marriage."
You're the one talking about the effects of gay marriage on children. Yet the moment I ask you what benefits of denying marriage to same sex parents would create for their children...
.....suddenly you abandon the topic. These 11 words destroy your argument utterly and completely:
How does denying marriage to same sex parents benefit their children?
Run.
YOU just accused ME of using kids in this debate for political expediency. Yet when I REPEATEDLY point out to you that this is about ALL children and not just a tiny fraction of them (your example of kids caught up in gay lifestyles alone, apart from all other children, their rights and best interests collectively), you use THAT as "proof that Sil doesn't care about children".
Your bullshit is so thick, you deviousness so profound that it's hard to know where to start, really.
Depriving ANY boy of a father and ANY girl of a mother as an incentivized institution (marriage) is wrong and detrimental to them COLLECTIVELY, OVER TIME. And THAT is the issue I have a problem with. My issue compassionately considers ALL children in a wide time continuum. Yours craftily considers a tiny subfraction of the word "children" in the present day. The Court has to weigh which is more important between the two. Their actions stand to snowball our culture into an unforseeable future, but one that has dark forshadowings already:
Prince s Trust Survey The Voices of the Voteless Children in Gay Marriage Debate US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum.
Your manipulation of semantics stands to hurt kids, bottom line. Proof that you do not actually care about the children you supposedly are advocating for. You are just using them as a hinge to catapult gays into shattering the word "marriage" come hell or high water in the process..
We aren't talking about just homosexuals, "their children". We are talking about ALL children into the future, because marraige more than any other institution stands to shape their future, and they cannot vote. So this topic takes on an extra sense of urgency.
Here are 23 words that destroy your argument utterly and completely:
How does a federal-mandate that institutionalizes the structural-deprivation of boys of fathers and girls of mothers help ALL children into the unseen future?