That 10, 20 or more years ago, there was no accepted understanding that folks could be homosexual and it wasn't a "fixable problem".
I'm old enough to remember way back ten or twenty years ago, and had at least two friends who were homosexual at the time. Brokeback Mountain came out right smack dab in that range. Will and Grace was in its third season twenty years ago. Granted we've shifted even more since then and homosexuality has moved beyond well the point where toleration is sufficient to where there is an expectation of celebration, but I don't think you're correctly remembering the period.
So they suppressed their true desires due to society telling them it was wrong to be homosexual or being shunned because of it, married someone of a different sex, had children, then since it is more acceptable, they came out, dumped their spouse and children may of suffered.
Exactly how much acceptance and tolerance is necessary before you consider them responsible for their own choices?
If it was different years ago, they wouldn't of married someone of the opposite sex and had children with them,
So at the very least we agree that this isn't a valid excuse today.
hence not causing the problem you really didn't seem to concerned about, but need to post about it.
Explain again how I "really didn't seem to[sic] concerned about" the problem of people entering into a child-bearing relationship in bad faith to those children's detriment. You keep saying that like it's true and implying the only way for kids' lives not to be unnecessarily turned upside down is for society to be
even more accepting of homosexuality and the adults who choose to make the terrible choices that harm those children are actually the victims.
...and back to my OP, why do we need to have an official label on peoples sexual orientation on a government document?
I don't disagree with this.
We might as well make the Jews were a Star of David on their clothing while were at it.
Yes, that is exactly the same thing.
Plus as I said earlier Iowa is a no fault divorce state, don't need to prove a marital fault in court to get divorced.
I thought the issue the legislator here was trying to address was the fact that during the divorce his constituent was for some reason not allowed to bring up the fact that her ex-husband had entered into the relationship in bad faith during the divorce proceedings. I agree that his solution is stupid and heavy-handed, but that doesn't mean there is absolutely no issue.
