THOMAS LANG ON MARRIAGE PROTECTION VS. MARRIAGE PROMOTION: From The American Prospect's website--a response to Rick Santorum's speech below:

But by continuing to feature marriage protection and marriage promotion side by side -- as if they are the same thing -- conservatives appear oblivious to a central paradox in their argument: If two-parent families are really the best way to raise children, shouldn't we want all parents -- including gay and lesbian parents -- to get married? And if so, isn't marriage protection, as conservatives define it, incompatible with marriage promotion, at least for the not-insignificant number of parents, biological and adoptive, who are homosexuals? ...

Following Santorum's Heritage speech, I asked him the following questions: "If our answer to single women for financial stability and welfare is to get married, or that marriage will help them out, what do we tell single gay women? Isn't that kind of painting a bleak future for them?"

...In fact, in his response to my question, he lumped childless heterosexuals together with homosexuals, drawing no distinction between the two. If, as he argues, it's all about the children, Santorum either believes that heterosexuals unable to have children should be banned by law from marrying or that we should throw open the floodgates of marriage to homosexuals as well. Which is it? more
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