As June marked the 10th anniversary of the legal de-sexing of marriage through the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Obergefell v. Hodges decision, all citizens of good will should consider how this ruling has impacted humanity through children.
We must recognize that the case for same-sex marriage was always about the same-sex family. No one who advocated for this radical redefinition of marriage and family ever considered this was just about adults. It was always about the kinds of homes children in same-sex families would grow up in and how redefining marriage would change family itself.
The journal First Things has a very helpful, short essay explaining just how de-sexing marriage and family by removing the essential male/female binary has harmed children. It is authored by John Bursch, vice president of appellate advocacy at Alliance Defending Freedom and argued against Obergefell before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015.
Bursch explains, “Marriage, as I argued, has always served a vital function: binding children to their biological mothers and fathers whenever possible. The government’s interest in marriage has never been about adult companionship.”
This is because “the state’s interest in marriage has always been about creating a stable environment in which children can know and be raised by the two people who co-created them.”
Like my daughter noted 10 years ago… “Why shouldn’t they be miserable, too!” 😀
This tired old argument is BS. It assumes that marriage is about having children. So if that’s the logical basis, then old people past childbearing age should not be allowed to marry, or men or women that can’t procreate for medical reasons should not be allowed to marry, or people who don’t plan to have children for any other reasons should not be allowed to marry. You don’t have to be married to have children, and you don’t have to have children to be married.
It has made idiots out of children. They are confused and don’t know who or what to believe.