The ‘Marriage is for Procreation’ Myth: The Futility of Marriage Exclusionist Studies and Statistics
Research has shown that children raised by homosexuals were more dissatisfied with their own gender, had homosexual experiences more frequently, and suffered a greater rate of molestation by members of their families
Arguments like these are being used increasingly to justify the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples. The New York and Washington courts — among others — agreed with the assertion that marriage is for procreation, evoking the same denial of liberties from the era of anti-miscegenation law. However, even if the above quotation is based in truth (we, of course, believe that it is not), it still does not satisfactorily justify the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. There is no compelling State interest to justify marriage exclusion, and laws that effect such exclusion create a policy that is unjustly and intolerably overinclusive and underinclusive.
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