Man, what a debate.
As if homosexuals suddenly start becoming straight just so that they can marry. And as if straight couples only have children because they can marry. There is an ever growing trend, at least in Germany, for people to stay single anyways, "marriage" certainly did not much to change that.
You want more children? Provide day long day care and enable mothers a better reentry into work afterwards. And get the upper classes to get more children instead of complaining all day for the lower classes to have them.
And if gay couple want to have a children by adoptions, then that's still better then those children being raised in orphanages, with a proven track record of abuse, arguable way more harmful to their psychological development then being raised by a same sex couple. And that comes even more true in a society where men and women become ever more the same in their behavior patterns.
And this "contribute nothing to society" has far too familiar and eerie rings. What's next, sterilizing mentally disabled people because they do not contribute to society? Deporting Hartz IV candidates?
Whatever happened to "Live your life however you want as long you don't hurt others?" attitudes?
This whole debate is more based on prejudices and christian brain washing then facts. The ancient Greeks and Persians had much less Problems with those concepts and yet they quite managed to build up empires.
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