I am against abortion but that is not what this is about. You need to understand that the right is a coalition. Diffrent groups allied together to achieve greater purpose. So you need to look at what your allies want, and be willing to give them SOMETHING. They also have to be willing to give up some things. For example I'd be willing to allow full gay rights, in exchange for abortion being banned and legally considered murder unless done to save the mother's life in a medical emergency.
Abortion should be permitted when Incest/Rape/genetic disorders that leave the "baby" a vegetable are concerned.
Morning after pills, and other stuff that prevents implantation should also be permitted.
Abortion up to the time of physical viability outside the womb or neural activity should be considered for legalization as well.
If by gay rights you mean gay marriage and the right to adopt, well, I can't say I have a strong opinion for or against, although some studies on how same sex couples influence child development should be done first.
For better or for worse, society has evolved around heterosexual copulation and child rearing for most of its existence though, so I am not holding my breath for positive or even neutral results.
Also, I am generally against situations where a few hairs on the tail(A minority of the alphabet soup community that wants to get married and adopt children) wags the whole dog, that being society.
I personally view marriage as a breeding and child rearing contract, and it is obviously created to provide the spouses and offspring social support, that contract is lopsided in favor of the female because the female sees a major degradation in working abilities and physical health because of gestation.
However, since there are a lot of pointless childless marriages and men die before women in most cases it is totally pointless to pretend that the objective reason for marriage's existence is still behind the contract.
Also, the whole loving and cherishing until death do us part bit is frigging excessive, guilttrippy, and it doesn't provide any concrete guarantees or penalties.if you view it as just a contract like you do for employment or services, it is a stinking pile of crap.
Honestly, the L part of the alphabet soup is probably the only subgroup where traditional marital contracts make sense.
So, yeah,I see gay marriage as mostly pointless, and at the same time do not think that there is any legal basis to prohibit two consenting adults from going into a contractual relationship.
TL;DR I am in between, yeah, whatever, it is all pointless bullshit anyway,and yeah, stop sperging out over said bullshit, no one wants LGBTQKFCNBBQ to be lynched/made to wear funny hats/undergo electroshock conversion therapy because a church or a baker won't play ball.
Where I draw the line is ironically forcing religious groups to go along with it.
If you want a religious ritual just join the Church of Zeus/Jupiter/Tengri/Perun/LeVey satanism/King Tut and get "married" within that religious tradition.
Or they can just do what we here in Eastern Europe did, and still do, and have a non-religious marriages and "child namings", drinking, silly outfits and gifts and long-winded official speeches included.
And no, I do not care what the interpretations of sexuality in Judeo-Christianity are, if an individual wants to be part of one of those religions and is LGBTQRGBWhatever then it is a matter to settle between that individual and the respective church's canon laws, not secular laws.
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