The law still gives benefits to heterosexual couples that many gay people cannot easily access eg parenting benefits, tax advantages for having a partner who is more dependent on the other (gay relationships tend to have a more equal distribution of labour). I have no interest in having children but for instance if a straight woman had a child, there is a presumption of paternity for her husband. In many Western countries, this isnāt available to lesbians. A lesbian mother often has to adopt her own child if she didnāt give birth to it. How is that fair?
Why not concede you are wrong when you claim that homosexuality is promoted or privileged because that isnāt true? If that were the case and every single media arm is promoting it, you would expect to see the majority of the population internalise this message and therefore the percentage of homeless gay teens to be considerably lesser, people wouldnāt live in the closet or agonise about coming out to their families, people wouldnāt hide even the most banal references to their homosexuality in various situations such as in the workplace, significant political figures wouldnāt be releasing adverts or statements dedicated to attacking us as deviants etc?
And by the way I count on my fingers how many times Iāve seen the mainstream media include or celebrate gender non conformity, much less gay characters.
We donāt have as much power as you seem to think you do.
Iāve been reading your blog with an open mind actually so I wanted to challenge some of your statements.
I'm starting to wonder if you're just a really elaborate troll, since everything you've written above is so blatantly, self-evidently wrong, that you must be able to see it, but you're obviously committed to the bit, and they're good jumping off points to talk about things worth addressing, so I'll bite:
"if a straight woman had a child, there is a presumption of paternity for her husband."
That's because the child is his, made from his DNA. That's because he IS the child's biological father. The problem more men actually have is being forcibly made to pay for the financial support of children that aren't actually theirs, and the state tries to make it hard or even illegal for them to prove through DNA testing that the child is another man's.
"A lesbian mother often has to adopt her own child if she didnāt give birth to it. How is that fair?"
Because she's not the child's biological father or mother. The child is not made from her. Hence, the child is not "hers" by default.
If we refuse to acknowledge the physical realities and innate biological rights of parenthood, then any stranger could just walk into a playground, pick up a child and walk off with it, saying "I'm your parent now".
"Why not concede you are wrong when you claim that homosexuality is promoted or privileged because that isnāt true?"
Because it IS true, and unmistakably so. This is what a police force looks like in every western nation today:
"If that were the case and every single media arm is promoting it, you would expect to see the majority of the population internalise this message"
That's a very telling assumption, because you are saying there you believe that whatever the state forces upon the population will be the beliefs the people automatically hold in private. Which is like saying you expect the Tibetan people to sincerely hold the Communist beliefs of the invading Chinese army that has occupied them for the past 70 years. Or that if your country was invaded by a fascist dictatorship that did nothing but put out pro-fascist propaganda 24/7, you yourself would automatically believe in fascism.
No: people have their own beliefs, separate to whatever agenda the state is imposing upon them. Which is as it should be.
"And by the way I count on my fingers how many times Iāve seen the mainstream media include or celebrate gender non conformity, much less gay characters."
That's a hell of a lot of fingers you must have there:
