Should Marriage for Same Sex Couples be Legal?

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There is great irony in Lambda’s assertion that “some who oppose marriage for same-sex couples choose to ignore the facts.”   The fact is that there is no non-partisan social science research supporting the notion that all children need is two parents, regardless of sex.   None.   And there is no study anywhere comparing outcomes of children raised from birth by either two men or two women with children raised from birth by their own biological parents.   In contrast, there is a mountain of non-partisan social science research supporting the growing consensus among family scholars that children do best when raised by their own mother and father, and that the best odds for that happening is for the mother and father to be married.

Moreover, the “consensus” among certain professional organizations is a matter of political correctness rather than a reflection of the conclusions of the professionals themselves.   As the politically-invested, pro-same-sex marriage founders of the American Psychological Association admitted in Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm, the extant research on same-sex parenting is extremely biased, with researchers disregarding their own results when the data suggest negative impact on children’s outcomes.   They further pointed out that the psychiatric, psychological, and social worker organizations refuse to fund or publish any research that may jeopardize the validity of the organizations’ preferred positions.   Welcome to George Orwell’s 1984.

David Blankenhorn knows as much about the social science on children’s outcomes as anybody, and he considers same-sex relationships a positive good.   But in The Future of Marriage, despite his expressed desire to see same-sex couples treated with greater dignity, he adamantly opposes redefining marriage to include same-sex couples.   Why?   Because his intellectual honesty prevents him from giving in to the siren’s song of political correctness.   His commitment to the well-being of children will not allow him to ignore the still growing body of social science research finding that children do best with their own married mom and dad.   Two “moms” or two “dads” just aren’t the same.   A man in a same-sex relationship may have the ability to be a good dad, but neither he nor his male partner could ever be the mom every child needs.