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Originally Posted by mobertol
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Marriage in society has always implicated a sense of kinship = procreation.
Not all married couples have children, for various reasons, but perhaps this is the final knot that needs unravelling - same sex couples do not naturally produce the next generation.
I have nothing against adoption by same sex couples but i think this is what actually blocks a lot of people into seeing these legal (ie marrige) unions as equal to heterosexual marriages.
Just trying to put into words how i see where most prejudice comes from...
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I think Kestrel-X is confusing sex and pro-creation -they are two quite different things.
Wrote the above earlier in this thread - forgot to add that same-sex couples can have children -though not by the traditional methods.
They either find a partner/friend who is willing to help them naturally or go through the "test-tube" route with a donor.
I'm sure most people will have no problem with this for heterosexual couples with problems...(I know several who have had lovely children this way, including a cousin of mine who had twins). So why not for same sex couples?
At the end of the day the most successful marriage is always a marriage of minds.
