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The choice of children: The logic of same-sex ?marriage? and abortion

By Alliance Alert

Matthew Lee Anderson writing at First Things / First Thoughts: "[T]he complex relationship of procreation, gender differences, and reproductive impulses that is heterosexual marriage exists 'pre-politically.' It is a relationship that only needs a man and a woman to exist, without any need for the surrounding society or its institutions, even while they might be interested in it. The same, I suggest, cannot be said for gay marriage. It?s tempting to respond to Douthat by suggesting that the possibility of gay adoption resolves the 'thickness' objection by introducing children into the equation. But that ignores the structural difference between gay unions and heterosexual unions. The former necessarily depend upon some third party for the introduction of children, either through adoption, artificial insemination, or some other method."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).