[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.

[b]Swinny89 wrote:[/b] [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.[/quote] True, a national study would be nice. Though all you need is the Bible to show that it is a sin. And thanks for the compliment, I do get it a lot :laugh: jk.

even if there were laws against abortion and gey marrige, poeple would still do it illegally

with more rules you have more criminals. earlier in history, abortion was also illeagal, this cause many more fatalitys of failed abortions