Can you reference these studies? I have a suspicion that they don't exist.

Why wouldn't the love be equal? If anything this would encourage that, you'd never feel cheated if you got the wrong one.

There are no victims to this "crime", so you can hardly say it's inhumane.

And if you make a decision to have a boy or girl, that's kind of the definition of rational.

You only need 1 child for that. And why would that be a bad thing? Most people have more than 1 child, so after getting a boy they can have a girl.

I think enough people would opt to have girls to stop the gap becoming too significant. And even if it did, it would be self correcting. People would start choosing girls instead. And if it didn't, at least over-crowding wouldn't become so much of a problem.

Oh hi! I didn't notice it was you. I'm afraid this time I do disagree with you.

Currently, in poorer countries, it is sometimes not considered the "investment" of raising a girl over a boy because a girl would be less able to work and earn money. So now the act of choosing would help this family survive. Unfortunately it is not uncommon to let female babies die so that they can have a boy instead. At least if they could directly choose these newborn babies wouldn't have to suffer.

As for places where this is not an issue, I really don't see what difference it would actually make. People have to devote their lives to this child, boy or girl. It is their child, they should be able to choose.

If you can choose looks, then everyone starts becoming more attractive, what's wrong with that? If the child new it was possible, then surely if the parents chose to not have them more attractive they would be blamed for it anyway. Just in 1 situation the child is more attractive. What about making people smarter? Surely that would be good.

That's perfectly reasonable, unless you're attracted to woman. For people who are attracted to the same sex and are religious, it causes them a lot of unnecessary distress. I assume that isn't the case for you though, so that is a perfectly good system.

The bible says a lot of crazy things, that's why most Christians don't read it.

"Let nature take its course."

Nature would dictate that we live in a Darwinian society where the weak perish and the strong survive. There is nothing natural about how humans live their lives. The fact that almost all our children survive is shocking by natural standards.

Would you allow people to choose the gender of their second child so that they have 1 boy and 1 girl?

The parent(s) must essential base their lives around taking care of the child until maturity. That's 20 years of their lives drastically changed. Being willing to go through all this effort I think they should be allowed to choose gender.

I probably should clarify. I'm here because it interests me to know what reasons people have. I support do support gay marriage. In England the debate has come down to whether or not a legally identical thing (Civil-partnerships) should be renamed marriage. In my mind, both sides are being pedantic over wording and I think it's pretty pointless. However, if it was a matter of race, I would support changing "black marriage" to just marriage, so that's the view I have to hold here as well.

They're not crazy, they're Christian. They have been taught forever to overthrow their own view of morality and reason, and instead accept what some guy in a big building up the road tells them. I think I can forgive them on the grounds of ignorance. I can't forgive the millions of straight men and women that couldn't be bothered to vote simply because the issue didn't directly affect them.

Where I come from you have to be married if you want to adopt, and you can't marry the same sex.

That is a pretty appalling system.

I don't get what you're saying here, and I have no idea what difference it makes considering what you want to watch, and what you don't.

You asked me if it bothered me/others to see them. That is my feelings on the matter. I don't tend to see it unless I happen to be in a gay bar, but that isn't often. While I don't really care, some people do. And unfortunately 51% of voters are allowed to oppress everyone else. My concern is that gay marriage is being voted against, which means that more people don't like seeing it than those that can be bothered to vote for something which will probably never affect them. And while we may disagree with the result, it's hard to argue with democracy.

"Evidence? Considering how marraige predates any recordable history I don't see how you can come to such a conclusion."

Sorry what? What is it you want evidence for? I'm merely pointing out that the world religions of today did not invent marriage.

I like how you have completely ignored important details, including the main point I was making.

Are you seriously telling me that you agree with those punishments, simply because it was a different time? You think people need death threats in order to not do serious crimes? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for executing murderers for example, but people that swear at their parents? People that don't scream loudly enough while being raped? Do you agree with this? Will you not concede that there are things in the bible that are wrong? Do you refute even the things said that have been proven to be false? Are you so commuted to the defence of a book that you have never read that you will try to harm other human beings because of things you have picked up from others?

It's clear to me from your last post that you have never studied the bible. The promise of eternal happiness is apparently not enough to encourage you to read a book. I would suggest looking up Jesus's actions before you make assumptions about his life. What is it exactly that you want me to take into account? Be specific. Actually do some research and tell me what you want me to consider. If you don't, then I will continue to base my opinion on Jesus from my own research, and believe me, he does not paint a pretty picture.

I have started to get the impression that you are an idiot. If your next response does not contain at least one intelligent sentence I won't bother replying. I am almost certain this will be the case, so enjoy living your ignorant life.