It's also important not to spank in anger. It's a corrective action not revenge.
This is one of the most important lessons for any kind of discipline. If you 'discipline' your children because of personal beef, they will not respect your authority, because they just see you as being selfish like they are, but *stronger*. It's a terrible lesson to teach.
Discipline delivered when the parent is calm, or only exhibiting
disappointment, is more effective, generally because it is more virtuous, and the child can more clearly see the reason for their punishment is their error, not because the parent is upset.
So, if I point out an abusive straight couple, then neither should straight couples have kids? Is that really the reasoning being used here?
As for calling gay relationships just lust, that is incredibly stupid. How many happily gay married couples do you need for gay relationships not to be just considered lust?
Not really. Sometimes, people aren't attracted to the opposite gender. So they find love with the same gender. That's the vast majority of gays. But the activist portion still needed to 'fight the good fight' after we won, and so all that's seen in most media is the creepy shit.
I don't have the statistics in front of me, but as I recall, if you cut out the extreme outliers in the top & bottom 2-5%, the least promiscuous homosexuals have about as many sexual partners as the
most promiscuous heterosexuals.
To be clear, I think promiscuity is morally wrong, regardless of which gender you're having sex outside of marriage with.
I also think that marriage is at root a divinely-created institution, and by definition heterosexual.
Give your partner power of attorney if you want. Have some sort of civil union if you want. But since back in the 90's when I first started to become culturally and politically aware, I have seen the push to 'legalize gay marriage' as an attempt to force normalization of homosexuality. I was actually wrong it turns out; the activists want to force people to
support homosexual marriage, as proven by the lawsuits they started filing within months of the Supreme Court's ruling.
Now, to help round out the perspective I'm giving in this post, I'll bring up Dave Rubin.
Rubin is openly homosexual, 'married' to another man, and actually has settled down with the guy into, as best is known, monogamy. He's also one of my favorite content creators on youtube, and because he's not abrasive or prone to sexualizing everything, I'd be perfectly fine sitting down and having a civil conversation with him. Much as Ben Shapiro is known to have done, I'd tell him I think his lifestyle is immoral, but it's his decision to make, and then we'd move on to other topics.
If the majority of homosexuals were more like Dave Rubin, we wouldn't be having this kind of culture war. But the fact is, it is very hard to dip 'just a little' over the line into sexual hedonism after you've decided that the line isn't actually real, and the statistics on levels of sexual activity bear this out.