I listened to the debate on The Last Word today about the right of same sex couples to have children.
Now I have always had fairly strong views on this over the years, yet I still do not consider myself a homophobe which is always thrown at you if you hold the view I do.
Needless to say, I only think that couples who are capable of having children should have them. I have no qualms about same sex marriages, but I always thought it could complicate the life of the child(ren) later in life. And I do appreciate that many children may well be happier in a same-sex marriage as in the traditional marriage of a man and a woman.
But the angle I always stood by was, "if two same sex people want to have a long term relationship why exactly do they have the human right to have children?"
They cannot do it themselves, so why should we give it to them? Surely if you bow to this then there are other cases where people may claim something as 'their human right'?
I know this is a whole can of worms, but I believe what I believe. Nature works in a certain way for a reason.
Now I have always had fairly strong views on this over the years, yet I still do not consider myself a homophobe which is always thrown at you if you hold the view I do.
Needless to say, I only think that couples who are capable of having children should have them. I have no qualms about same sex marriages, but I always thought it could complicate the life of the child(ren) later in life. And I do appreciate that many children may well be happier in a same-sex marriage as in the traditional marriage of a man and a woman.
But the angle I always stood by was, "if two same sex people want to have a long term relationship why exactly do they have the human right to have children?"
They cannot do it themselves, so why should we give it to them? Surely if you bow to this then there are other cases where people may claim something as 'their human right'?
I know this is a whole can of worms, but I believe what I believe. Nature works in a certain way for a reason.