To the Editor:
I know and like Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn (and Mr. Blankenhorn happens to be my boss). But their proposal does not address my central concern about same-sex marriage: that such a redefinition requires also that we redefine parenthood, saying only that children need two parents but not necessarily their mother and father.
Such a move, I fear, could further undermine already weakening social norms, which say that mothers and fathers, most of whom are heterosexual, should stick with each other and the child, for the child’s sake.
This concern is not a “religious” one.
Elizabeth Marquardt
New York, Feb. 22, 2009
The writer is vice president for family studies, Institute for American Values.
Note from KBJ: Bingo. It's the children, stupid.
