For Those Who Think SSM Is A "Distraction" Or A Minor Issue...
I beg you to take a look at what's going on in Massachusetts and ask yourself honestly whether you think this would be a good development nationwide.
Here's one item among many: [emphasis in the original]
In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children! Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
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May '10
Re: For Those Who Think SSM Is A "Distraction" Or A Minor Issue...
The same study found that the overwhelming majority of comparable heterosexual couples remained faithful to each other.
Do we want to say that this doesn't and shouldn't matter for the rearing of children? The biological link to both parents doesn't matter? And the moral example of their parents' sexual fidelity to each other doesn't matter to the well-being of children? Having a parent of each gender doesn't matter?
This flies in the face of intuition and experience, pace Trace's anecdotes, from which no conclusions can be drawn.
Feb '11
Re: For Those Who Think SSM Is A "Distraction" Or A Minor Issue...
Trace, my argument isn't about comparative outcomes for specific children. My argument is primarily a moral one: it is the responsibility of biological parents to raise the children they create. It's secondarily a practical one: it's better for the rest of us when we don't have to bear the burden of the choices of others. It's tertiarily an intuitive one: despite your willingness to sever the link between biology and parenthood based on how very, very often biological parents end up being inferior, I'll continue to trust that blood is indeed thicker than water in most cases. Finally, it's a conservative one: some crackpot will eventually decide that children should be raised by the state based on the empirical evidence that children are better off away from their inferior biological parents and raised by experts to become excellent citizens; best to keep safe one of the institutions that keeps this particular bond secure rather than let it get anywhere near that point.
Sep '10
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