Wind In My Hair wrote:Can you point to any evidence of this 'high tendency'?
children have natural instincts which enable them to grow up watching their father .
u said it best ... natural instincts... do we need any other evidence??
Wind In My Hair wrote:intuitively that this is not right, yet grow up to be wife-beaters themselves. So perhaps this is an argument against homosexual parenting.
precisely. ... the example is apt, that also explains the "high tendency" there... i think thats also what sms meant by "brainwashing..."
however, after all that i've said, i'm going to contradict myself a little here... about the adoption of and bringing up children, should we then also consider adoption by single people abnormal? how about single parent family, although sometimes its inevitable... how about unwed mothers... are they then also able to bring the kids up "normally"?? should that be banned too... sigh.. thats why i say life's just too complicated ...
Wind In My Hair wrote:I'm also curious how posters here define the 'norm'.
norm in the oxford dictionary is defined as "a situation or pattern of behaviour that is usual or expected... or standards of behaviour that are typical of or accepted within a particular group or society"
so perhaps for superglide its a norm but in our society, then its a no no still... however, thats not the point...
"norm" for me in a marriage is between a man and a woman, to fall in love with the opposite sex and get married and have sexual intercourse in the way it is defined

in order to produce the next generation... that is "norm", not defined by me, but is a fact ... can gay couples produce their own children? fact is they cannot...so thats not normal... pls do not take any offence in my post, i'm just trying to explain my thoughts as regards to whats normal and abnormal in this case..
Wind In My Hair wrote:Would that be 'the behaviour of the majority'? Because in that case polygamy is the norm - studies suggest that many people in marriages or relationships have affairs.
having affairs is not polygamy... polygamy means having more than one wife... there's a little contradiction here, u asked if the norm was the behaviour of
majority, and state later that studies
suggest many have affairs, hence polygamy should be a norm??
1stly, many does not necessarily mean majority, the word many is just too subjective, many as compared to what?? 4million people in singapore sounds like too many a people for me, but compared to most other countries... gee... its like a joke...
2ndly, studies only suggested, were they proven?? so how can it be the norm in this case...
besides, i don't agree with "the norm is the behaviour of the majority" although there might be a certain and limited truth in the sentence.. take for example, being left/ right handed, is right handed the norm? many say yes, and they're probably right, if we're going according to the dictionary's definition since its expected... but the left handed and some others would say no... the older generation or in some cultures, they think the lefties are blasphemous, but as long as they can write.. who cares? but we cannot say the same for the difference being homo or hetero.... i'm a leftie by the way
WIMH, i'm not challenging u either

and i'm also not against or for homos.. because after all said and done, its really their lives, and to have a law incriminating them?? its BS to me...
i just feel that there's a misunderstanding along the way in this topic for some posters...
accepting them (homos) is not equivalent to agreeing with them..
condoning behaviours does not mean we encourage...
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