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Despite the many challenges faced by people in a same-sex relationship, a study made by two students of the University of Queensland concluded that this kind of relationship is happier compared to the normal relationship we know as male to female bond.
Researchers Francisco Perales and Janeen Baxter said that the conclusion of their study is a strong counter-narrative to the usual thinking that same-sex relationships are conflictual, unhappy, and dysfunctional.
The conclusion of the study, which was published in the academic journal Family Relations, was derived after the researchers surveyed 25,000 people in the United Kingdom and 9,000 others in Australia.
Also at Francisco Perales, Janeen Baxter. Sexual Identity and Relationship Quality in Australia and the United Kingdom. Family Relations, 2017; DOI: 10.1111/fare.12293
(Score: 2) by schad on Wednesday December 27 2017, @03:13AM (2 children)
I've asked. Religious types say things like "It's a sin" or "It's against God's plan" or "The Bible says that it's an outward sign of inner corruption" or whatever else. Conservatives usually talk about "traditional Judeo-Christian values," which is the same thing. But they'll also talk about "normalcy," which isn't quite the same thing; in that case, it's more about conforming to the prevailing social norms, which they view as essential for a healthy society.
The closest I can get is to say that religious people tend to think that true happiness is impossible for nonbelievers. So a married gay couple would be unhappy, though of course so would a single gay person. They key trait is not having found (the "correct") God.
Maybe the religious and conservative people I talk to are smarter than the ones you and the researchers talk to. I was inclined to believe that the researchers just lived in the fairly typical academic echo chamber where they are almost literally incapable of comprehending foreign perspectives. But if you've got some actual first-hand experience... maybe I'm just hanging out with the right sorts of people, entirely by mistake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @04:07AM
A deeply flawed text.
Hundreds of examples of self-contradictory nonsense.
Bible Inconsistencies - Bible Contradictions [infidels.org]
This stuff was known LONG ago.
Self-Contradictions of the Bible -- William Henry Burr, 1819-1908 [google.com]
If somebody gave you a Science textbook filled with so many holes, you'd pitch it out the window as worthless.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday December 27 2017, @05:09PM
For certain values of religious types, yes. Others, no. Maybe you might also get an answer like, "for a nomadic people always on the razor's edge between existence and genocide it might make sense to prohibit sexual relationships which don't result in offspring. But six thousand years later it may matter much more that people learn to love one another no matter what their difference in lifestyle are, because the planet is filling up awfully fast and if we're to survive we must learn to get along." That may be a minority opinion, but it's the main one in the circles I travel in. Then again, we might not be what people expect of "religious types," either, even though we are religious....
Then again, there are also religious people who completely believe the point of relationships isn't "happiness" at all. On both sides of belief of the morality of homosexuality/homosexual behavior, pro and con.
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