Familial ties

One of the main arguments on the right is that gay marriage will lead to the destruction of the family and cause great harm to children. Let's put that one to rest:

Adolescents who have two moms as parents are no different from teens growing up with a mother and a father, a new study finds.

On measures of psychosocial well-being, school functioning, and romantic relationships and behaviors, the teens with same-sex parents were as well adjusted as their peers with opposite-sex parents. The authors found very few differences between the two groups. A more important predictor of teens' psychological and social adjustment, they found, is the quality of the relationships they have with their parents.

"This is the first study that has looked at adolescents with same-sex parents in a national sample, and it shows clearly across a wide range of variables that they're doing pretty well," said study author Charlotte J. Patterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Who would have thought it is the quality of relationships with children and not a mother/father household dynamic that caused kids to be well adjusted? I guess the family values crowd will have to come up with a new reason to deny gays the right to express their love and commitment to each other. After all, lying doesn't fall into moral responsibility, does it?