The "family debate"...

[brendala]

I recently saw this article that trashed Mitt Romney and the Republicans' "family values" platform and said that it's invalid because the author's parents just happened to be abusive, unfit monsters.

I see this argument peddled out ALL THE TIME when the subjects of gay marriage and "traditional family values" come up and it just drives me up the wall! NOBODY on the right is claiming that ALL heterosexual married couples are inherently better suited to raise kids than ANY single mom or gay couple. And, if given the choice between handing an orphan off to Neil Patrick Harris or Phillip & Nancy Garrido, no right winger would ever choose to give the child to the crazy rapists just because they're straight and married.


Also, an anti-gay zealot could easily counter this with his own stupid "apples and oranges" story like:
"Would you rather give a baby boy to a stable, loving, well-to-do heterosexual couple? Or would you rather give that baby boy to one of the EEEEVILL, ASS-RAPING HOMOS OF NAMBLA!?!???!?"

BOTH arguments are pointless because they purposely use ridiculous 'would you rather...' examples instead of dealing with FACTS!

I'd go on, but Adam Carolla already said it better than I ever could (warning, the person who posted Carolla's rant to YouTube added some dumb images/music to it :P):

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This article I linked to was a powerful and emotional story about being raised by a "traditional" married couple who had no business having children and the scars that child abuse leaves on a person's soul. However, the writer loses all credibility when she starts ranting about how her personal story COMPLETELY invalidates the argument that a child is better off with a mom and dad than in any other family arrangement. She doesn't seem to realize that her story can easily be refuted by rattling off random stories about gay people who molested/abused children in their care or by pulling up all the statistics that back up the belief that single motherhood is not a good environment for a kid to grow up in.

I'll copy the author of that article and use a personal example: I have a gay relative who is an abusive alcoholic. She has hurt nearly everyone in my family with her temper and overall crazyness. Does this one personal example mean that all lesbians are abusive alcoholics (and does it give me the right to label them as such)? Or is this just a personal anecdote that has no bearing on weather or not gayness is a good thing or a bad thing?