RicOlie_2 said:
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Maybe homosexual pairs can't "create" their own children. But there are enough children in the USA (and other countries in the world) who have no family at all. With forbiddance of the homosexual marriage, and the denying of the rights heterosexual peopel have, you TAKE possibilities away.
Children who grow up with only one gender of parent typically don't grow up properly and have problems as they grow older. If everyone lived by Christian values there wouldn't be any problem with unwanted, orphaned, or poor children and that would be a non-issue, so please don't use that argument.
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As you said "if". Also the most problems homosexual parents and their adopted children are not from the fact that the parents are of the same gender, but the fact that outstanding people working, and acting against it.
Also the sentence "if everyone lived by christian values..." to negate my argumentation is indeed invalid, because the facts are that never eryone will live by those "values" and that is a good thing, because these values are, watched from the outside, illogical and dangerous.
You gave yourself enough reasons why tha catholic church cannot be right, and only your beliefe in it give it the power to control you.
You define the morale sights of the catholic church as permanent. But History shows that it is indeed fluid. You said that past time things done and preached by the institutional catholic chruch were wrong and not in agreement with the principles of the catholic church. But just because these principles changed since that time. So, what today is told as "what was wrong in the past" was in what the catholic church sgreed back then. Thus it is possible that in few hundret years the catholic church also has a complete other point of teaching regarding homosexual marriage. It would just need one pope changing catholic marriage teachings a bit.
Homosexuality is never condemned explicitly in the new testament, only in the old testament. The point here is that different translation does different interpretations. With all its translating and interpretation errors, I can't accept the bible as a valid source for any law.