"The arguments for and against a constitutional amendment also
fall along social and civil rights lines.
Ron Schlittler, policy director for Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said people trying to build a life
together, whether straight or gay, should be treated the same.
Pastor Daniel de Leon Sr. of Santa Ana, Calif., in testimony
prepared for the hearing, said marriage is for the benefit of
children, not adults. He said efforts to stop gay marriage are not
comparable to past opposition to biracial unions.
``Laws forbidding interracial marriage are about racism,'' he
said. ``Laws protecting traditional marriage are about children.''"
That last line is the one that gets me every time. When someone wants to foist their beliefs on everyone else they always come up with some altruistic justification for doing so. It's for the children. We must protect the children from happy homes with two parents who love each other and love them. We must shield them from an example of commitment to family in the face of overwhelming adversity.
Why is it that when a child goes missing from the foster care system in Florida, no one is shouting about a constitutional amendment to fix children's services in this country. Children starve to death in the homes of junkie mothers that children's services can't or won't remove them from. Children are beaten and left for dead, locked up in closets with rats and vermin, sold for drug money, kept as sex slaves, duct taped to high chairs in basements, shoved in microwaves and baked to death, left alone in apartments for weeks at a time, locked in cars in 108 degree weather and goddess knows how many other vile atrocities all by HETEROSEXUAL PARENTS!!!!!!!! IN TRADITIONAL MARRIAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you want to do something for the children, fix that. Make a constitutional amendment for that.
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