[b]mantor48 wrote:[/b] [quote]As for Josh (Swiney), Well, it hurts the children, since they will never know what it is like to have a mother AND a father. It is like half of what the kids could have been has been ripped away. I for one know, since I was raised with only a mother and I know the feeling of wanting a Dad to be there for me...[/quote] Well, I think this calls for a national study of people who grew up in gay households. Untill that is done, my argument stands. And even if the results of such a study were to show that somehow gay parents had a bad effect on children, that would not prove that homosexual relations were necessarilly a sin. It would only show that it is not the prefirrable union to bring up children in. Even though you were brought up in a one parent household, you seem to have turned out just fine. Better than most I might add. Your head seems to be quite strait on your shoulders.