This is an article from 2008 that appeared in the liberal Los Angeles Times. (H/T Dina)
Excerpt:
I’m a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together.
[...]Marriage as a human institution is constantly evolving, and many
of its features vary across groups and cultures. But there is one
constant. In all societies, marriage shapes the rights and obligations
of parenthood. Among us humans, the scholars report, marriage is not
primarily a license to have sex. Nor is it primarily a license to
receive benefits or social recognition. It is primarily a license to
have children.
In this sense, marriage is a gift that society bestows on its next
generation. Marriage (and only marriage) unites the three core
dimensions of parenthood — biological, social and legal — into one
pro-child form: the married couple. Marriage says to a child: The man
and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and
raise you. Marriage says to society as a whole: For every child born,
there is a recognized mother and a father, accountable to the child and
to each other. Continue at Wintery Knight
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