Posted: May 07, 2012 1:25 pm
Lion IRC wrote:Specifically, do you think children raised from (birth to adulthood) by their two direct biological (loving) parents in an opposite-gender, mating/matrimonial pairing lasting long enough to raise the child to adulthood, affords them any greater welfare benefit in terms of gender-balanced, mother/father role model education as against a same-sex adoptive parenting arrangement in which one or both (loving) parents are not the directly related and BOTH parents being of the same gender as the child being raised or NEITHER parent being the same gender as the child being raised?
Not necessarily.
As for my next question...
Lion has answered that he is not advocating a universal right to exercise religion.
Instead, he maintains that raising "freedom of religion" only demonstrates that gay marriage must not be legalised because it clashes with the beliefs of a religious majority...
Lion IRC wrote:I raise it in the debate because the same-sex marriage lobby (a global minority) is in a head-on collision course with religious culture (a global majority)
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People claiming the right to religion, including that percentage of the world's population which adheres to Abrahamic monotheism (50% to 60% +) will claim the commensurate “right” to discriminate against homosexual marriage...
By indicating he believes rights are "commensurate" with the proportion of the population who claim them, Lion appears to be arguing that "might makes right".
So my questions is...
Q. Hypothetically, if the majority of the world's population did support gay marriage, should it then be legalised?
Just Yes or No please Lion.