Quote Originally Posted by gagged_Louise View Post
With all due respect NatalieD, that's just a kind of clamp-down "stopper argument", much like when the US gov't is meeting the wave of criticism during four years of an ill-fated war in Iraq by saying "Would you want to live in a Taliban state? We toppled Saddam and the Talibans and that justifies everything"
That comparison doesn't work. You're whole argument hinges on the kids being picked on in school if their parents are gay. It's an assumption based on nothing I've ever seen or experienced. Today there are plenty of kids growing up with gay parents and there's no problems. There's also plenty of kids who have embarrassing straight parents.

And then on top of this, who cares? Even if they'd been picked on in school, they'd at least have a family. Going back to your original comparison, I think that people would rather live under Taliban rule than not at all. It's just being human.