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Washington Post: ?Same-sex marriage has good chance of approval, Maryland Senate leader says?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Washington Post: Tuesday's hearing grew combative at several points, particularly during testimony by Austin R. Nimocks, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a national organization that seeks to defend "religious freedom." Nimocks argued that government should keep marriage between a man and a woman as an incentive to foster "responsible procreation." "Men and women still comprise the two great halves of humanity," Nimocks said. "It matters that a child has a mom and a dad." . . . In response to questioning by senators, Nimocks acknowledged that children of some same-sex couples could be better off than children of some heterosexual couples. But he said research has shown that in most cases, the best situation for a child is "a low-conflict marriage" between a man and a woman.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).