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The Idiotic Irony of Opposing Equality for Homosexuals
In all the opposition to equal marriage rights for homosexuals I find only one possible line of legitimacy. That line says that, for whatever reason(s), homosexuals have issues with depression, suicide, and other mental issues significantly exceeding heterosexuals, and that because of this they shouldn’t be allowed to raise children (and hence marry).
The argument has major problems with it, but there’s at least support for the first piece, i.e. that homosexuals do tend to have more mental health issues.
Not being an expert on the data, I have a simple issue with this: The issues being complained about (possibly legitimately, depending on the data) are very likely to be caused by the discrimination itself.
You can’t call someone a freak for their entire lives, tell them they’re unnatural, tell them God hates them, and then count it against them when they end up having issues. That’s ridiculous.
Equality first. If, after some number of decades of normalization, we find that there are still significant issues with mental health between the groups, then let’s tackle that. But until then, don’t be the idiot that advocates institutionally causing the damage that we plan on blaming them for later.