Should Marriage for Same Sex Couples be Legal?

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Judges and politicians should never impose a system that purposely deprives children of a married mom and dad.  De-defining marriage does this.  Marriage de-definers insist, without supporting evidence, that all kids need is a “loving home” with two “parents.”  But they continue to dodge the most obvious follow-up question in this debate:  “Which parent is unimportant to a child: mom or dad?”

We already know – through all non-partisan research and plain common sense – that kids need a mom and a dad.  Kids who grow up in homes without a married mom and dad are far more likely to drop out of school, to abuse drugs and alcohol, to commit suicide and suffer from depression, to engage in early promiscuous sex, to become pregnant, to contract an STD, to suffer poverty, and to be incarcerated.

We also know that every time the government tampers with marriage, kids suffer the most.? Consider how disastrous no-fault divorce has been for children.? It’s mind-boggling that advocates of de-defining marriage frequently cite the divorce epidemic in support of their position.? They ask, “Since marriage is already broken, why shouldn’t same-sex couples be able to call their relationships ‘marriage’?”? The answer is that you don’t fix a flat by slashing the other tires.?? Marriage has already been devastated by divorce, welfare, abortion, tax penalties, and other anti-family government failures.? Kids have come out the losers every time.? So where is the wisdom in, once again, treating children like lab rats in yet another massive social experiment when every other one has failed?

No one would support a policy that guarantees more kids would go without food, clothing, health care, and education.   Growing up in a home with one’s own married mom and dad is the best guarantee that a child will not be deprived of those things and more.  Having both a mom and a dad is infinitely more important to a child than any of those material items.  So how then can anyone support a system that, by design, guarantees that more kids will be denied their right to grow up with a married mom and dad?  The only answer is that a small group of self-interested adult activists have put their agenda above the real needs of real kids.