Gay marriage
For thousands of years, men and women have married to produce children to continue the human race. Marriage is the foundation of life and society, and it must be protected. While some say we have the right to choose whomever we want to marry, same-sex marriage contradicts a cultural tradition we have held for countless generations. Same-sex marriage should not be legalized because marriage is defined in the Bible as a union between a man and a woman, traditional marriage produces offspring to populate the world, and same-sex marriage may create emotional stigma for the children of those unions.
The Bible says in the Book of Genesis that God created Adam and Eve, and that has been our concept of marriage ever since ( www.christiancentury.org).
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“My objection to gay marriage is that it represents a major change in family structure. It means, quite simply, that families will again expand beyond the traditional structure in which a family is headed by a man and a woman, to now include families being headed by two men or two women” (Hogberg). This is potentially harmful for the children involved in gay adoption. There is the very real possibility that such children will develop emotional problems, sexual-identity confusion, and depression. Again, this is not because gays and lesbians are naturally bad (spectator.org). It is due to the fact that children are unlikely to adjust as well to being raised by same-sex couples as opposed to heterosexual ones (Hogberg). This shows that children that are adopted from homosexsexual or lesbians will have emtional problems and begin to get confused of what type of sex that they should be forward with in life. Children could be depressed because of seeing their biological father with another man and that could be his or her mother in law or seeing your lesbian mother with another woman could be very confused as your get older without their