The article by Dan Savage rips into the decision by the courts that marriage is just for having children.
...At least the New York court acknowledged that many same-sex couples have children. Washington’s judges went out of their way to make ours disappear, finding that “limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to the survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents.” Children, the decision continues, “tend to thrive in families consisting of a father, mother and their biological children.’’...
My comments are, do they require a fertility tests when you go to get your marriage licenses? Or do you have to wait until after your first born to be legally married?
...When my widowed grandfather remarried in his 60’s, he wasn’t seeking to further the well-being of his children, who were grown and out of the house. He was seeking the security, companionship and legal rights that marriage provides. The survival of humankind was the furthest thing from his mind....
When they get over this insanity and see that it is a question of Human Rights, that all people should be able to marry the person that they choose.
Read the whole New York Times article here.
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