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2.19.2004

If you're arguing against gay marriage, this is a weird finding to use in support of your point:

QUOTE "One of the best predictors of whether a child will grow up in poverty, use drugs and turn to crime is whether or not his parents are married." --"Teen Moms," Wall Street Journal, A14, 8 May 1998 END QUOTE

I would think this quote would tend to show that providing stability -- i.e. marriage -- is important. And I'm Not The One Arguing Against Someone's Right To Marry. And furthermore, IL, I don't dispute that two-parent families have stability statistics on their side but you've yet to show how adding another subset of two parent families will "undermine the ideal of monogamous heterosexual marriage." But that's because you can't show that gay marriage will undermine heterosexual marriage because [1.] it won't and [2.] it's an incredible leap of logic to argue that adding choice (chocolate or vanilla ice cream) makes one of the choices (vanilla ice cream) less ideal.

But, I understand that you're having a tough time defending your position, as it's always difficult to defend inequality and unfairness.  
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