...Interesting that, in a thread about "LDS" doctrine, a Catholic Author's opinion piece is offered as "evidence" that marriage equality will be bad for "the children".
The actual article can be found here:
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/science_myths_and_same_sex_parenting
Apparently,according to the author, babies can cause lesbians to stop loving each other. OTH, according to the author, same-gender couples who solve their child-real;ted issues are made stronger thereby.
When spouses "fall in love" with their children, it doesn't diminish their love for the other spouse, but enriches it. Same-sex couples may seek children hoping they will provide this same effect, but will more often find them an obstacle to and a competitor for affection. And when persons with SSA do succeed in solving their deep problems and meeting their unmet needs, it tends to diminish the attractions that form the very basis of their relationship, and likewise undoes it.
Surprisingly, no support is offered for the author's opinion.
Apparently, according to the author, boys raised by lesbians cannot develop traditionally sterotypical male identities, because lesbians hate and distrust masculinity, and women more thoroughly discourage gender-typing play. Which, according to the author, is a bad thing, because constructionist ideology.
The article is worth a read, if only as a textbook example of circular reading and special pleading--because "marriage" (in the Catholic millieu) is the procreative union of one stereotypical man and one stereotypical woman, dutifully carrying out their western-world stereotypical rôles, anything different is, by definition "bad"; and it is "bad" because it is, in fact, different.
Her opinion, presented as a conclusion:
But no matter how many people praise "family diversity," children being raised by parents with SSA will always know that it's not the same, and someday they will resent how their needs have been sacrificed for the sake of a social experiment. In a sad irony, the more that cultural elites insist that there is nothing wrong with their situation, the more these children will feel guilty about resenting it, and this guilt will lead them to conclude that there must be something wrong with them.
For fun there is even more of the same at
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/marriage_religious_liberty_and_the_grand_bargain
There is a fun discussion to be had about the value and usefulness of, and the societal problems caused by, stereotypical gender rôles, but this may not be the thread for it. My parents, bless their hearts, raised me to look upon work as, not "man's" work, or "woman's" work, but "my" work. I was expected to cook and keep a house clean with the same skill and dedication as I was expected to fell timber and repair the family cars. I was expected to sew, and darn, and do laundry, with the same joy and competence as I was expected to pour concrete, lay tile, and hoe. How much better off would I be if I were inculcated into a traditionally stereotypical gender rôle? As it is, my partner gets to call me the "domestic goddess" of our arrangement.
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