cond child.Homosexuals also claim that most child molestation cases involve heterosexuals. These claims, however, are misleading. It is true that heterosexuals commit most molestation but that is because most of the population is heterosexual. “Even though homosexuals represent less than 3% of the U.S. population, at least one-third of all child molestation involves homosexual activity” (Knight 194)Legalizing homosexual marriages sends out a wrong message to our children, letting them know that a male-female marriage is not their only option. In addition, since a gay couple cannot produce a child of its own resources - another party must be involved - many homosexual marriages will not have children in them. “The very ‘lack of children’ will give ‘gay couples greater freedom.’ . . . to do more of those things that heterosexual couples do less of because they might hurt the children” (Wilson 39).If we legalize gay marriages, do we then legalize polygamy for these relationships? Polygamy, a husband with more than one wife, is definitely an unacceptable situation. Polygamy’s “rank inequality and female subservience, is too easy a target. It invites exploitation of the degrading competition among wives, with often baleful social and familial consequences” (Krauthammer). With homosexual relationships, however, the people involved are all of the same sex. There are fewer domestic issues than with traditional man - woman relationships. In addition, according to a study done by researchers A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg in 1978, 74% of male homosexuals had more than 100 sexual partners during their lives. Twenty eight percent of those men had more than 1,000 (Frame 65). These figures tend to indicate that there would be a large desire for homosexual men to have extramarital affairs. This level of promiscuity would not enhance an already troubled marital institution.H...
