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"It is a sin grievous to God and repulsive to Christians because it rejects God's design for mankind as heterosexual beings" (Wildmon, 2007). And its currently increasing acceptance in the contemporaneous community is only based on the desire to be perceived as modern and open-minded, when we should in fact be focusing on how to convince the gays to renounce their habits.
The risks of accepting and allowing gay rights revolve around the emergence of future negative effects. It is like opening Pandora's Box, from which numerous problems will come out, the most stringent issue being the perception as normal of deviant sexual behaviors (including even incest). Then, gay communities undermine the authority and moral power of traditional values, values onto which our very society was built (Wildmon, 2007).
Homosexual rights also pose a threat for future stability as they put intense pressure on the sanctity of marriage and normal sexual relations. Various religious organizations have even concluded that gay rights will lead to more situations of incest. This is entirely believable in a context in which, amongst other things, gays also militate to "repeal laws controlling the age of sexual consent" (LaHaye, 1991). Then, the gay communities are most commonly perceived with reticence (to say the least; it is even pure hatred at times). This means that their community is outcast and by using stereotypes, it can be concluded that the marginalized homosexual individual is more likely to commit sexual crimes. In such, the number of sexual abuses on children would easily increase due to a liberalization of gay rights (Herek, 2009).
The next anti-gay rights argument comes from the actual propaganda used by the homosexual and lesbian communities. An analysis of their agenda will quickly reveal that they do not seek the God given rights of life, liberty and property that each state grants to all its members, regardless of age, race, sexual orientation and so on. They in fact seek to gain social welfare advantages.
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The most relevant example is the special exception that has been made for homosexual unions to pay lower costs for housing, to fill in joint tax statements or to inherit properties. Straight individuals living together, such as room mates or unmarried couples do not benefit from these privileges (Doherty, 1993).
As a final specification, the arguments against same-sex unions and, for that matter, the majority of the rights demanded by the homosexual and lesbian communities, are found in all aspects of life, such as traditional values, the sanctity of marriage, legislation, social equality, or the safe future of the next generations.
Works Cited:
Bidstrup, S., Gay Marriages: The Arguments and the Motives, 2004, http://www.bidstrup.com/marriage.htm last accessed on March 31, 2009
Doherty, E., the Hidden Agenda of Homosexual Politics, the Forerunner, November 1993
Herek, G.M., Facts about Homosexuality and Child Molestation, University of California, 2009, http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html last accessed on March 31, 2009
Eskridge, W.N., Spedale, D.R., Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse?: What We've Learned from the Evidence, Oxford University Press, 2006
LaHaye, B., the Hidden Homosexual Agenda, Concerned Women for America, 1991
Vitagliano, E., Sodom's Solemn Warning, American Family Association Journal, November-December 2003
Wildmon, D., Principles Which Guide AFA's Opposition to the Homosexual Agenda, American Family Association, http://www.afa.net/homosexual_agenda/principles.asp last accessed on March 31, 2009
Arguments Against Homosexuality, Conversapedia, 2009, http://www.conservapedia.com/Arguments_Against_Homosexuality last accessed on March 31, 2009
Works Cited:
Bidstrup, S., Gay Marriages: The Arguments and the Motives, 2004, http://www.bidstrup.com/marriage.htm last accessed on March 31, 2009
Doherty, E., the Hidden Agenda of Homosexual Politics, the Forerunner, November 1993
Herek, G.M., Facts about Homosexuality and Child Molestation, University of California, 2009, http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html last accessed on March 31, 2009
Eskridge, W.N., Spedale, D.R., Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse?: What We've Learned from the Evidence, Oxford University Press, 2006
Wildmon, D., Principles Which Guide AFA's Opposition to the Homosexual Agenda, American Family Association, http://www.afa.net/homosexual_agenda/principles.asp last accessed on March 31, 2009
Arguments Against Homosexuality, Conversapedia, 2009, http://www.conservapedia.com/Arguments_Against_Homosexuality last accessed on March 31, 2009
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