[dersk]

I’ve got a lot of gay (American) friends here in Amsterdam (I’m American as well), and there seem to be two main issues. First is civil rights – things like inheritance and other ‘next of kin’ issues. Second is general social acceptance (which I don’t think you can really legislate). And don’t get me started on this defense of marriage crap. I thought the *democrats* were the ones who were supposed to be sticking the government’s nose in our private business and spending lots of wated money on social programs…sheesh. Pretty obvious pandering there, if you ask me. My solution would be to get the government completely out of the marriage business – heck, in a way it’s a separation of church and state. Make everything a civil union, such that two people who commit to each other have their civil rights, and forget about the social validation part of it. Heck, I might do that with my ex-girlfriend – we found out she was pregnant after we broke up, so we’ve got a kind of a partnership going on. And why not allow polygamy or polygyny? As long as everyone’s old enough to make an informed moral choice for themselves that doesn’t come at an economic cost to society, what business is it of yours? As long as there’s a commitment and an implied legal responsibility between anyone in a civil union, I’m all for it. And to the person who said he knows straight kids of gay parents, therefore it’s not genetic: good lord, go by a biology textbook (preferably not in Kentucky). Inherited traits are a lot more complex than that – and in fact, we’re still learning a lot about how factors other than nuclear DNA influence inherited characteristics (cf Scientific American from a few months ago). Interestingly as well, science is now telling us that there’s pretty much zero genetic basis to what most people refer to as ‘race’. It’s almost entirely a social construct (heck, it took me a couple of years to realise that heere in Europe, people include South Asians (Indian) as ‘black’).

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Name : dersk, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 34, City : amsterdam, State : NA, Country : The Netherlands, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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