Let us say 20 years go by, and sufficient freedom still exists for someone to survey the children of these groupings, and they find that there are consistent, negative outcomes associated with being raised in an other-than-heterosexual home. Let us say there are higher rates of alcoholism and drug abuse. Since homosexuals are alcoholics and drug abusers at higher rates, this seems not unreasonable. Higher suicide rates. Higher rates of depression, both of which already are more common among homosexuals, and in my view not primarily because of alleged “homophobia”.
Does the Left take account of these facts and reconsider? When does it EVER reconsider?
Over 100 years ago, John Ruskin, in his essay “Unto This Last”, argued that a minimum wage should be paid to people–a high minimum wage at that–EVEN IF this caused increases in unemployment. His reasoning: we can only be held accountable for the principle upon which we act, not for outcomes. He actually said this.
As I say over and over and over, though, Goodness is wisdom, and wisdom seeks the best possible outcome for all involved. It does not privilege one group and ignore the rest. This is the very dynamic it theoretically opposes, not what it supports (although of course in practice it is quite anti-egalitarian, and quite elitist).
As a society, I feel it is incumbent upon us to give children the very best possible chance of thriving. This experiment, of course, has not been done, and I cannot speak to its results.
But ask yourself, if you have seen the movie Bird Cage, if that was a healthy family? Ask yourself if this young man is not wanting to get married in no small measure to establish his own masculinity and heterosexuality in a home dominated by a neurotic cross-dressing homosexual?
These can be asked. They SHOULD be asked. This is not unreasonable, and it is not hate. Hate is making of people objects. That is not my task here. That is never my task.