SSM AND PARENTING: Mary Catelli replies to Lucia Liljegren

Lucia writes: "So, my only real question is: Do you disagree with my statement 1? That is: Do you think parents who take on the legal responsibility to care for children ought not to be married?"

To which my answer is a passel of questions: Why do you refer to those people as "parents" and not as "people"? Are you using the word "legal" to mean biological and adoptive parents? Do you think that your argument means that homosexuals should not be allowed to marry in states where they are not allowed to adopt? Do you think that marriage laws should be changed whenever a judge orders an adoption so that a child is legally adopted by two people who are not allowed to marry? Do you think that "legal responsibility" trumps all consideration of who is actually raising the child? That adoption law should not be altered to fit the realities of who is actually caring for the children? And if so, why is adoption law so sacred when marriage law is so malleable?
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