Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Natural Marriage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8cQCi4ehXkg

This propaganda pissed me off.
Let's set the facts straight shall we? 
Here are the stats: 1st divorce 41%-51%, 2nd divorce 60-67%, 3rd divorce 73-74%. Children of divorce are 4 times more likely to be divorced than those kids who grow up in non divorce families. Looks like serial monogamy is more of a threat.

Making pedophilia and incest synonymous to gay marriage is like saying a fish is a bicycle.

"Are homosexual adults in general sexually attracted to children and are preadolescent children at greater risk of molestation from homosexual adults than from heterosexual adults? There is no reason to believe so. The research to date all points to there being no significant relationship between a homosexual lifestyle and child molestation. There appears to be practically no reportage of sexual molestation of girls by lesbian adults, and the adult male who sexually molests young boys is not likely to be homosexual (Groth & Gary, 1982, p. 147)."

Dr. Carole Jenny reviewed 352 medical charts, representing all of the sexually abused children seen in the emergency room or child abuse clinic of a Denver children’s hospital during a one-year period (from July 1, 1991 to June 30, 1992). The molester was a gay or lesbian adult in only 2 of the 269 cases in which an adult molester could be identified, less than 1percent of the cases. (Jenny et al., 1994). 
A 1994 study found that “a child’s risk of being molested by his or her relative’s heterosexual partner is 100 times greater than by someone who might be identified as a homosexual. (Carole Jenny et al., Are Children at Risk for Sexual Abuse by Homosexuals?; 94 Pediatrics 41; July 1994; study of 269 sexually abused children when an adult offender was identified.)
A sexual abuser who molests a child of the same sex is usually not considered homosexual.
Dr. Nathaniel McConaghy (1998) cautioned against confusing homosexuality with pedophilia. He noted, “The man who offends against prepubertal or immediately postpubertal boys is typically not sexually interested in older men or in women” (p. 259).
“It is meaningless to speak of fixated molesters in these terms – as heterosexual or homosexuals - they are attracted to children, not to men or women. (Groth & Birnbaum, 1978).
** Note: The term “fixated molesters” refers to adults exclusively attracted to children.
The experts agree that there is no link to homosexuality and child abuse.
The American Psychological Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Child Psychiatrists and the Child Welfare League of America all have policy statements stating there is no correlation between homosexuality and child abuse.
When asked about this question, the American Psychiatric Association wrote to the Senate stating: “While we are all concerned by the issue of sexual abuse, there is no credible evidence that lesbians and gay men are more likely to commit such offenses than others. Gay men and lesbians do not pose any particular threat to youth and should not be singled out or discriminated against in any manner.
Groth and Birnbaum (1978) found that none of the 175 adult males in their sample – all of whom were convicted in Massachusetts of sexual assault against a child – had an exclusively homosexual adult sexual orientation.
from http://wearemichigan.com/reference/childabuse.html with bibliography.


Natural Marriage Stabilizes and perpetuates society:

Creates Children: heterosexual intercourse is no longer the only way to create children less costly perhaps but not the only way.

Best raises children: "Overall results of research suggests that the development, adjustment, and well-being of children with lesbian and gay parents do not differ markedly from that of children with heterosexual parents." Meezan, William and Rauch, Jonathan. Gay Marriage, Same-sex Parenting, and America's Children. The Future of Children Vol. 15 No. 2 Marriage and Child Wellbeing (Autumn 2005) p. 102

Protects Women
1 in 6 currently married women report violence by their spouses.
1/2 of previously married women report violence by a partner.
3/4 of women who experience violence by a past partner endure repeated assaults, 41% on more than 10 occasions.
a woman is more likely to be killed by her spouse than by a stranger.

Almost one-third of female homicide victims that are reported in police records are killed by an intimate partner.
In 70-80% of intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the murder.

Less than one-fifth of victims reporting an injury from intimate partner violence sought medical treatment following the injury.
Intimate partner violence results in more than 18.5 million mental health care visits each year. http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National).pdf

Civilizes Men: First the definition of Civilize is to bring a place or people to a stage of social, cultural, or moral development considered to be more advanced. (More advanced than what?) If one in six married women report violence by their spouses how are men more civilized?

Secondly if, in fact, marriage is causal to less crime would it not make sense to say the same sex long term commitment might not also logically reduce crime as well?

Reduces Crime, poverty, and welfare- which reduces government spending and deficits.
While this is generally true it is not always the case. Many of the crimes committed by married men and or women are often unreported such as incest and battery. So it's not really fair to say that they commit fewer crimes, when 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 3 boys are sexually abused many by their own family. 

It benefits everyone. Even those who do not choose to marry.

All non-married people, including homosexuals, tend to pay more in taxes than married heterosexuals. Women in general make less money on the dollar as men and therefore single mother families are more likely to require welfare, housing assistance and daycare vouchers. 

Many hate crimes specifically against gays are committed by upstanding fundamentalist, married heterosexual males. So that blows the single people benefit from natural marriage even if they don't marry.

It's not as much bigotry as elitism. People under the idea that their way is the only way or best way are elitists and as such justify violence to anyone and any system that does not agree with their way of thinking. There are as many as 1400 marriage rights handed to heterosexual taxpayers in this country. Don't loving committed same sex relationships deserve the same rights? If they don't, these privileges granted to heterosexual marriage should be withdrawn. I would rather give up mine, than allow the inequity to continue?

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