Op-Ed: Who is threatened by the freedom to marry?

May 05, 2010

As posted by David Weigel on washingtonpost.com:

..."Unlike with most activists, I don't really see the direct impact on their [those opposed to the freedom to marry] lives, or on the lives of the people who agree with them, of the cause they oppose. Antitax protesters are threatened by higher taxes. Anti-health-care-bill protesters fear their coverage will get worse. Anti-meat-eating protesters believe animals are being murdered and the environment is being made worse. Even the birther movement has always made a kind of sense -- oust Obama from office, and you get a chance to reverse what damage you think he's done to your country.

"But who's threatened by legal marriage equality? Whose life is made worse? If there was science suggesting that children raised by same-sex parents are worse off than children raised by traditional families, that would be one thing, but I haven't seen it. We've watched legal marriages of same-sex couples in several European countries and several states, and it hasn't ushered in some decline in the quality of life, or marriage, for those who don't participate in it.

"That's what I don't understand."

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