Gay Parenting

[Beirut]

Since you're all about anecdote, personal experience, and common sense, do you know any same-sex families? You 'back up' what you say with parental experience, but unless you're raising a child with another man I'm not sure how your experience has much of anything to do with this subject.

And yet you speak at length about the greatness of that tank in your avatar. Ever drive one? Ever drive any tank?

Ahhhhh... I see.

On the other hand, I have children.

I'm starting to think this is just one big troll. No one intelligent enough to operate a computer could be this intentionally asinine. The implications of using 'common sense' as a standard of proof are endless.

Actually, I see common sense falling by the wayside at an alarming rate based on the "science study flavour of the weak".

(Pardon the pun.)

Blacks are obviously inferior to whites. Women are obviously inferior to men. Jews are obviously behind some evil conspiracy to enslave us all. Any backwoods, hick truism can be supported.

Not really. Use some common sense, it will all come clear to you.

I'm starting to understand the dangers of anti-intellectualism. Reason, debate, studies, and research have no influence on gut feelings, down-home aphorisms, and good old common sense.

Yeah, yeah. Cry me a river about the dangers of anti-intellectualism.

What I have noticed about people who lean too far to the "intellectual" side is they often end up as really loud blowhards who drone on endlessly in coffee shops until you want to beat them to death with their own hardcover copy of The Republic.

Sometimes the best intellectualism comes from a farmer with a 500 word vocabulary who has never heard of Wittgenstein or Machiavelli but knows all about real life, raising a family, and putting in a hard day's work.

Don't be ashamed. We forgive you.