it's like mixed race marriages - it's all cool for mum and dad, but the kids often end up accepted by neither race of their parents (sad but true) and not feeling like they fit comfortably into any racial 'family' group.
for mixed marriages this is not so true... more exactly it may be true in an Anglo Saxon society where the notion of Community is fundamental... it is less so in a more globally integrating society... i think it is exactly the same for children of gay marriages... it would be probably a disaster for them if gays were seeing things only through a communatarian way (for the reasons Koz enounced)... but there is little chance for that to come. Even in Anglo Saxon societies.
anyway there are many gays (and especially lesbians) who have children of their own without being married and these children are not so stigmatized it could be feared. so it may be a good thing to separate the problems of gays children and gays marriage. anyway it is also said sometimes than chidren of divorced parent have diffficulties (something not so obvious i think but well it is said)... will we make divorce out of law for that?
hmm... i still think gay marriages objections are linked more to a desire to preserve a certain social order than anything else (even religious reasons that has been more than once a mask for theses kind of things). An order where there is a strict difference between man and woman and different kind of things that are obligatory expected if you're a man or a woman. I'm not in a mood for defending this kind of order and then if so: i'm not so sure that gays marriages would change anything for heterosexuals...
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/offtopic.gif" alt="" /> i'm too slow... didn't see kiya's post <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />
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