MARRIAGE AND BABIES IN INDIANA: Maggie Gallagher

[By the way, sorry about the low posting levels lately. I have been fighting my computer for days. It's fixed now, though, I think, so I'm catching up. --Eve]

From the Indiana court of appeals decision upholding the rationality of opposite-sex marriage laws:

"The State of Indiana has a legitimate interest in encouraging opposite-sex couples to enter and remain in, as far as possible, the relatively stable institution of marriage for the sake of children who are frequently the natural result of sexual relations between a man and a woman. One commentator put it succinctly as follows: 'The public legal union of a man and woman is designed. . .to protect the children that their sexual union (and that type of sexual union alone) regularly produces.' Maggie Gallagher, What Is Marriage For? The Public Purposes of Marriage Law 61 LA L Rev 773,781 (2002)."
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