Most Western constitutions put the family (mother-father-CHILDREN) under protection the state and the law, in the imterest of the weakest member of this constellation: children. Family has been hard and core of every social community, forming the basic cell without which no community could survive or even be formed up. Some people - like me, I say - do not see the need to put the relation between two adults of the same sex that never will form a family under the same ammount of protection - in whose imnterest? Children? There are none, and there will never be any (I strictly oppose the idea of making it regular habit that gay or lesbian couples could be turned into a family by adopting children, I think children need to experience the male qualities of a father as well as the female qualities of a mother during their education). Although data seem to be diverse, I have beehn shown enoiugh indications to make me think that children that are raised by mother or father alone, do show statistically significant (thus no spectacular) differences in their later social behavior, there has been a lot of research done especially in the 70s, but also later. I do not see any need while adoptation by homosexual couples must be turned into a regular practice. Nature would have taken care for that, if it is a wanted solution.
I am no phobic about homosexuals, I had loose friendships with two gay buddies during university myself, and never took care, for they never made an issue of it, you even did not realize they were "different", their behavior was absolutely "normal" comlpared to the people around. Wjhat I do not like is if gays and lesbians start to flirt with their diffrent sexual taste, if they say a gay relation is the same like a normal family raising children, or if the start to parade in the streets to show how much en vogue they are.
But what makes me really boiling is - like happened in Germany some months ago - politicians suddenly discover that the crowd perceives it as poltici8al correctness to cheer and to hail gay politicians if they out themselves in front of running cameras. First it became known from the leader of the liberal party. Then a mayor followed, and then three or four other politicans on national level as well. suddenly it was a big story. "I am gay, I am en vogue, now you must support me to show you have no ressentiments againsts gays..."
I have nothing against gays and lesbians as long as they do not try to make profit from it or start to flirt ("kokettieren") with it, but things like Cristopher Street Day make me wanting to vomit all day long (like I also would not tolerate it when women suddenly start to walk on the street all naked - it is aggression of a special kind, and thus an attack on, at least a provocative violation of the personal sphere of others. They want to be respected and treated like normal human being? Iam all for that, opkay. But then they should leave the institution of family and the protection by the state that it dersves alone, and should behave just like what they want to be perceived as: normal.
A gay member of the Green party in the Bundestag found it not to be a self-damaging violation of his (representative) status to join a pro-gay march in Moscow some days ago. Russia is not known for it's tolerance on these things. The demonstration was confronted by militia and polcie, which then started to join ranks with counter-demonstrators and let sticiks and fists fly. Our dear member of the bundestag was hit in the face by one fist, and then expressed into the cameras how shocking and rude it all was.
I grinned for minutes, I admit. no problem with gays. Has been part of community life since centuries and millenias. But no culture was so stupid to make it a norm, or put it on equal rank with the norm that enables social life of a community: hetereo relations, family, and children. No problem with gays. Problem it becomes if you start to tell all the world about your sexual behavior again and again, and even start to collect votes by giving your orientation as an argument.
No, no sympathy on gay marriage from my side. Just more of this PC it is.