Student Essays
As I find myself in the mire of essays, I reflect on some of the topics and ideas that my students create (the ones that aren't recycling ideas that is).
Gay adoption...an interesting if not highly controversial topic because it is all CRAP! In a continuing series of illogical and innane rhetorical arguments I bring you the reasons why gays can't adopt:
1) Gay parents are pedophiles.....really? Are you kidding me with this? There is no link. Any sexual preference is capable of being a pedophile. We have non-gay foster/adoptive parents who lock children in cages. So why do we let those people adopt?
2) Gay parents raise gay children.....so do straight parents. To assume that being raised by gay parents makes you gay is ridiculous. It makes a child aware of the world if nothing else. If that were even REMOTELY true, then why do straight parents churn out gay children. And don't tell me it is because they did or did not get overly smothered by a mother or had no religious morals or any of the other non-sensical crap people spew as support.
3) You need a mother and a father to raise a healthy child.....talk to all the single parents who succesfully raise "normal" and stable children who are functioning memebers of society. And they are just one gender - one person.
4) It is an abomination in the eyes of God....so is eating seafood and wearing clothes made of two synthetic fibers. You can't pick and choose your verses when we are ALL guilty of a lot of things that such an antiquated text tells us. It is dated and not that timely. Don't use a book with questionable authority, translation and history as the basis of any argument if you expect it to be rhetorically sound. Issues of faith have no place in rhetoric. If it is not provable by some kind of fact, don't use it.
These laws are not created in the interest of children. They are created because of draconian beliefs and stem from ignorance, fear and overzealous religiosity. It's what I call the "Ew" factor. This whole hate the sin and not the sinner crap is just that. It's just another way to put a band-aid on your prejudices. I see no reason why a child should not have an opportunity at a loving home regardless of who the parents are.
Keep in mind that at one point, and in even some areas of the country now, you can't adopt a child of another race because it would confuse the child....frankly that is just racist-speak.
So give the homos the chirren.
As I find myself in the mire of essays, I reflect on some of the topics and ideas that my students create (the ones that aren't recycling ideas that is).
Gay adoption...an interesting if not highly controversial topic because it is all CRAP! In a continuing series of illogical and innane rhetorical arguments I bring you the reasons why gays can't adopt:
1) Gay parents are pedophiles.....really? Are you kidding me with this? There is no link. Any sexual preference is capable of being a pedophile. We have non-gay foster/adoptive parents who lock children in cages. So why do we let those people adopt?
2) Gay parents raise gay children.....so do straight parents. To assume that being raised by gay parents makes you gay is ridiculous. It makes a child aware of the world if nothing else. If that were even REMOTELY true, then why do straight parents churn out gay children. And don't tell me it is because they did or did not get overly smothered by a mother or had no religious morals or any of the other non-sensical crap people spew as support.
3) You need a mother and a father to raise a healthy child.....talk to all the single parents who succesfully raise "normal" and stable children who are functioning memebers of society. And they are just one gender - one person.
4) It is an abomination in the eyes of God....so is eating seafood and wearing clothes made of two synthetic fibers. You can't pick and choose your verses when we are ALL guilty of a lot of things that such an antiquated text tells us. It is dated and not that timely. Don't use a book with questionable authority, translation and history as the basis of any argument if you expect it to be rhetorically sound. Issues of faith have no place in rhetoric. If it is not provable by some kind of fact, don't use it.
These laws are not created in the interest of children. They are created because of draconian beliefs and stem from ignorance, fear and overzealous religiosity. It's what I call the "Ew" factor. This whole hate the sin and not the sinner crap is just that. It's just another way to put a band-aid on your prejudices. I see no reason why a child should not have an opportunity at a loving home regardless of who the parents are.
Keep in mind that at one point, and in even some areas of the country now, you can't adopt a child of another race because it would confuse the child....frankly that is just racist-speak.
So give the homos the chirren.
