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NYT: ?Children Speak for Same-Sex Marriage?

By ADF Alliance Alert

NY Times: "While opponents of same-sex marriage worry that schools will teach that gay and straight relationships are equal, many supporters focus on a different, but still child-centered, issue: What about the children now being raised in families headed by gay men and lesbians? How does the lack of marriage benefits for their parents affect them? . . . 'The real question is whether same-sex relationships benefit children to the same extent that living with a married mother and father does, and we believe they do not,' said Peter S. Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, the conservative Christian organization. 'Children do best when raised by their own biological mother and father who are committed to one another in a lifelong marriage.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).