An anti-gay group is attacking gay marriage in their efforts to protect children from straight divorce. Minnesota For Marriage, financially linked to NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, and also linked to an active anti-gay hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, weekly publishes these “Minnesota Marriage Minute” videos (this is number 14,) in an attempt to swap public opinion by whatever means necessary, against same-sex marriage. Minnesota voters this year are facing a ballot initiative that will, if successful, write discrimination into their constitution, banning forever same-sex civil marriage equality.
“Isn’t it true that children don’t really need a mom and a dad – any two living parents will do?,” Minnesota For Marriage asks, and answers:
Family structure matters for children. The family structure that helps children the most is a family headed by their two biological parents in a low conflict marriage.
“Host” Kelly Yanta, a former journalist now hired anti-gay shill, spends much of this week’s video talking about the evils of divorce and homes with parents who fight, how children need both their biological parents to be successful, and attacks same-sex marriage — as if these issues were at all related.
Yanta must be under the remarkably ridiculous idea that same-sex couples steal children under dark of night from loving, intact, heterosexual-headed homes. But in the real world, same-sex couples often adopt their children from previous heterosexual marriages, or adopt children who don’t have a mother or a father, or, yes, sometimes — like many heterosexual couples — turn to artificial insemination to create a child.
So how, exactly, is same-sex marriage harmful to children?
If anything, these anti-gay bigots should be crawling on their hands and knees, thanking same-sex couples for helping to care for the children heterosexuals created but for many reasons — death, poor parenting abilities, drug, incarceration, poverty, etc. — are unable to raise them.
Good lord!
Can we please start thinking logically?