Family Research CouncilThinkers

Same-sex marriage is a threat to traditional marriage in that the lack of concern for sexual fidelity among same-sex couples could encourage traditional marriage partners to view fidelity in a more lax manner.

Same-sex marriage is an enormous threat to traditional marriage in that same-sex couples broader acceptance of extra-marital sexual relationships will lead to a similar line of thinking in the broader public, thus doing enormous harm to the norm of sexual fidelity in marriage.

Same-sex marriage is harmful on the grounds that particular social scientist have suggested [in entirely unrelated contexts] that a biological connection to one's child might increase the likelihood that parents will identify with their child, and would thus be willing to sacrifice for that child, and would thus be less likely to abuse the child.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society because it stands in opposition to research suggesting that marriages thrive when spouses specialize in gender-typical roles, such that women are happier when their husband earns the lion's share of the household income. Likewise, couples are less likely to divorce when the wife concentrates on childrearing and the husband concentrates on breadwinning.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society because the children of gay couples would by definition be 'motherless', thus denying children the emotional security and emotional cue-reading that mothers have been shown to exhibit to children and infants.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society because the children of gay couples would by definition be 'motherless', thus denying daughters the unique counsel only a mother can give as they confront the physical, emotional, and social challenges associated with puberty and adolescence..

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society because the children of lesbian couples would by definition be 'fatherless' which would negatively impact the child since a father's pheromones influence the biological development of his daughter.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society because, while in a traditional marriage women domesticate men causing them to earn more, work harder, drink less, and live longer, spend more time attending religious services, and be more sexually faithful 'committed' gay men, by contrast, practice distinctive sexual patterns suggesting that it is a foolish hope that they could benefit from similar effects.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society in that it would institutionalize the idea that children do not need both their mother and their father, thus enabling men to more easily rationalize abandoning their children ( after all, they could tell themselves, our society, which affirms lesbian couples raising children, believes that children do not need a father.).

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society in that, by de-emphasizing the procreative purpose of marriage, it leads to lower fertility rates, as clearly evidence by the fact that the countries that have legalized or are considering legalizing same-sex marriage have some of the lowest fertility rates in the world.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society it that it places a broader emphasis on the emotional connection in marriage over its procreative purpose, thus leading to an anti-natalist mindset that fuels population decline, which in turn puts tremendous social, political, and economic strains on the larger society.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society on the grounds that, according to research, children raised by homosexuals are more likely to have looser notions about traditional gender prescriptions and are more likely to report homoerotic attractions in themselves.

Same-sex marriage is harmful to society since in vitro fertilization deliberately creates a class of children who are forced to live apart from their biological parents, leading them to wonder about their absent fathers [thus causing them some mental anguish].

Same-sex marriage is to be opposed because the research claiming 'no differences' in children raised by same-sex couples is preliminary and often conducted by activist with poor methodology.

Same-sex marriage is to harmful to society because the children of lesbian couples would by definition be 'fatherless' and research [into the entirely unrelated subject of children who have been left fatherless due to divorce or abandonment] shows that the presence of a father in a strong marriage provides a model for girls of what to look for in a man, and gives them the confidence to resist the sexual entreaties of their boyfriends.

Same-sex marriage is to harmful to society because the children of lesbian couples would by definition be 'fatherless', and 'fatherless' children [according to entirely unrelated research into children without two parents as a result of divorce or abandonment] are shown to be more susceptible to delinquency in boys and sexual activity in girls.