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Gay marriage and Pro-Life Stance

Recently I was looking through my Facebook news-feed and saw a video from 2005 by the Conservative Party candidate Andrew Scheer ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-gay-marriage-lgbtq-goodale-1.5256095 ), where he talks about how gay marriage is unnatural because gays are incapable of having children of their own. As someone who has studied biology and genetics to some extent, the thing I find most ironic is that these people typically also have the "pro-life" stance. It bothers me when people use specific components of biology to further their argument, as they nit-pick points for a misleading portrayal of the data. "Science" is a powerful and misleading way of showing credibility, but of course in the end one must take in the whole picture, which unfortunately Andrew Scheer does not. To get into the details, the video shown in the article portrays Andrew Scheer claiming that gay marriage does not make sense due to the fact that homosexuals cannot