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87blue

So children need a mother and father, and not just loving parents in general?

From here:

Same-sex parenting is an abusive practice whereby two gay adults contrive to deprive a helpless child of the love and support of a mother or father.

 

This is making a lot of assumptions, like a child NEEDS EXACTLY BOTH at the same time in order to be a healthy adult.

 

I was not going to be a quiet little dupe for this gay adopter, no matter how many columns he gets to publish in the Huffington Post.  So I stated that “every child is born with a father and a mother. That is what is meant by ‘created equal.’ This is the most basic ‘inalienable right’ upon which all the others mentioned in the Declaration of Independence are based. If you believe that children do not have a basic right to a mother and father, you do not believe they have any natural-born rights at all.”
True to form, the gay “dad” quickly countered by rattling off the predictable list of human shields.  What about widows?  What about single dads?  What about the 100,000 children in foster care waiting to be adopted?  What about the case of a woman in Europe who died of cancer and didn’t know the father of her child and insisted that her gay brother and his partner adopt the child?
The lunging flourish: “Tell them about people having a natural born right to a mother and father.”
To which I replied: “Stop using widows and orphans as human shields. None of us is going to buy this crap. Gay people do not have the right to deprive a child of a parent of the opposite sex just because they want kids. And those 100,000 kids in foster care deserve a mom and dad just like everyone else.”
A war over the statistics ensued, in which I reminded this persistent Rumpelstiltskin that over one million American women seek fertility treatment each year, so there is an inexhaustible pool of heterosexual couples who want children but can’t have them – enough to ensure that no child in foster care ever has to be adopted by a gay couple.

 

Because a child is harmed otherwise...how? Every child is born from a "Biological Mother and Father". He conflates that with raising a child, let alone by a NON-BIOLOGALLY RELATED heterosexual couple.

asked on Friday, May 12, 2023 08:15:23 PM by 87blue

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This is a bunch of ignorant nonsense and false claims. I don't even see any arguments, although admittedly, I did not read through the whole rant. If you see something that you think is a fallacious argument, isolate it and let us know.

answered on Saturday, May 13, 2023 05:14:41 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD

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Looks like this rant can basically be summed up as:

  • According to the Declaration of Independence, all children have the right to a father and a mother. I would categorize this as factually incorrect, primarily because a reading of that section makes it clear that they're talking about the right to self-determination. Maybe would fall under contextomy .
  • If the child's biological parent is unavailable, then they can/must be raised by a different heterosexual couple. Seems like they're preemptively moving the goalposts on this one - they've acknowledged that their original assertion, that every child is born with a father and a mother, is incorrect, and then fall back on the idea that every child could have access to a father and a mother: Not because it inevitably happens naturally, but because there is a foster care system in place that theoretically allows it.
answered on Saturday, May 13, 2023 10:36:52 AM by FormerRedditor

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