CIVIL UNIONS DISMISS FATHERHOOD: Leslie K. Wolfgang

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example," Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis famously wrote in 1928. By creating civil unions, the state now teaches that families with and without fathers are equally good. There have always been successful, loving families without fathers, but now the law tells us that men have nothing unique or special to offer that is worthy of encouragement, enforcement and protection by our society.

Some may applaud this as progressive and an example of our Yankee intellectual superiority, but I think it is a travesty for women and children who are already financially, physically and mentally struggling without a husband or father. Motherhood comes naturally, but fatherhood must be nurtured and supported by society. ...

Not only will there be fewer fathers if the state succumbs to gender relativism, but replacing fathers with legions of lesbians is not proved to be good for children. And "proved to be good for children" is the standard we should have used before creating civil unions. According to the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, the long-term social science research regarding children raised in same-gender households is nonexistent or flawed, suffering from misrepresentative samples, non-standard measures and self-reporting.

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