DO CHILDREN NEED A MOTHER AND A FATHER? Mike Pignatello replies to Mark Tardiff

If we compare the "best with the best" and the "worst with the worst," as Mark suggests, we end up with the fact that opposite sex AND same-sex parents can all be great parents, or they can be awful parents. But then when he and others then insist on opposite-sex role models to prove that some good parents are better than others, they have to resort to value-laden language to promote their preferred vision of marriage, such as the phrase "...importance of modeling man-woman relationships." Why can I call this "value-laden language?"

Because if having one male and one female parent are so vital to marriage, then a gay man could marry a lesbian and raise a kid and could satisfy the anti-SSM need of having an opposite sex role models in the home. But would those two really be sufficient role models? How about two opposite-sex bisexuals? The anti-SSM list of "marriage fundamentals" falls apart because no one can control the presentation of gender in the home. That a father and a mother have different genitalia or genders doesn't predict that they will be representative of all the hopes that the anti-SSM camp has for opposite-sex parents as gender role models. And, ultimately, restricting SSM cannot control gender variations in the home.
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