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angus
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« on: August 05, 2004, 03:37:50 PM »

I voted Neither because I'm straight.  Please don't make fun of me as I was born that way and I can't help it.  If I was gay, however, I think I'd want to be able to marry the man I love.  Today makes two months of heterosexual marriage for me.  And in two months I still haven't felt the sense that my marriage is somehow weakened by nontraditional marriages.  

It seems like an appropriate time to mention that my wife is expecting.  I hadn't mentioned it before because in both our families it is customary to wait until marriage before impregnating one's significant other.  But what the hell, these things happen, and we were already planning on getting married anyway, and we're both very excited, and scared, about having a baby.  It's getting harder to hide, what with the basketball-under-the-blouse look my wife has attained.  I actually raised the question to my wife about what if our child is gay.  Her answer is that of course he won't be, so it's not something we should worry about.  "I'm not a coward, I've just never been tested.  I like to think that if I was I would pass" is how that Mighty Mighty Bosstones song goes.  I hope that big test of openmindedness is a test I'm never required to take.  But if it comes down that way, I hope my wife and I both live in a society wherein our child won't be the subject of discrimination and hate.  Ours is the greatest nation in the world.  We will make it even greater when we can accept all people for what they are.
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2004, 03:09:19 PM »

I don't trust the APA at all. I've been involved with them all my life, skimmed through several of their books (my father is a psychologist, so we have quite a diverse collection of books on psychology). They are very corrupt and literally are run by homosexuals. In fact, many people become psychologists in an attempt to solve their own psychological problems.

Because the love the child needs comes from two parents; the father and the mother. The love the mother provides is different than what the father provides because of hormonal and sexual differences. If, for instance, you had two mothers, they're both going to be very sympathetic towards the child instead of disciplining him, so the child ends up getting away with wrongdoings. Meanwhile, if a child is raised by two fathers, he is constantly disciplined, and so fears taking risks on account of punishment. The list goes on.

So know you're saying all women are sympathetic and linient, and all males are tough and disciplied.  I know many people who parents are opposite, I know many whose parents are both one or the other.  

I was just thinking the same thing.  My mother was much stricter than my dad.  And already I can tell my wife will be the disciplinarian in my family.  In fact, I still remember how to say "No!" in daddy-dialect:  "Go ask your mother."
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