Texas AG: 'ban on same-sex marriage promotes childbirth"

[ehrnst]

The stupid is strong in this one.

"Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage allows the state to promote the birth and upbringing of children in “stable, lasting relationships”, the state’s attorney general argued Tuesday while asking a federal appeals court to reinstate the ban.

Attorney general Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor, said the views of ban opponents could be considered “rational”. But he argued that Texas voters have the right under the US constitution’s equal protection clause, the same amendment often cited by ban opponents, to define marriage in a way that best supports children.

“There are good, well-meaning people on both sides,” he wrote to the fifth US circuit court of appeals, echoing previous sentiments in the case. But he argued that opposite-sex couples are better suited to have and raise children, and thus help reduce “societal costs”.

“Because same-sex relationships do not naturally produce children, recognizing same-sex marriage does not further these goals to the same extent that recognizing opposite-sex marriage does,” the brief said."



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/texas-same-sex-marriage-abbott-children-appeal

[randys1]

1. BTW, I am CERTAIN the average kid growing up in a same sex couple household is FAR

better adjusted, informed, mature and intelligent than in a so called traditional household.

I have NO doubt about this.

The reasoning for this is simple, most Gay people have had to become liberal and progressive and open and informed to survive, and these are all vastly superior characteristics to almost anything else.

[Coventina]

2. OK, listen UP Mr. Attorney General: I happen to be BARREN! SHOULD MY HUSBAND DIVORCE ME SO HE CAN

MARRY SOMEONE TO BEAR CHILDREN?!?!?!?!?


IS THAT ALL MARRIAGE IS ABOUT!?!?!?!?!?



People like you make me SICK! You are trying to use BIOLOGY, which is different in EVERY COUPLE to deprive people of legal rights, financial security, and personal choice.

You are beneath contempt.

[egold2604]

6. You should hire a handmaiden to bear his children for him. It says so in the Bible

[Coventina]

11. I wouldn't put it past these morans to suggest something like that.

But I'm not taking the Bible's advice on sex or childbirth.

It ain't the Bronze Age anymore....

[loyalsister]

12. I think the answer might be "yes"

if you're white.

[Coventina]

13. I think you mean if HE is white....

[loyalsister]

14. yep

However a "one drop" mentality that seems to permeate the RW, the preference would be for both to be white. I heard someone say that they thought gay white people were betraying their race.

[Coventina]

15. Oh for heck's sake! Does that mean they're pro-gay if the couple is non white?

The twisted thinking of these people never ceases to amaze me!!!

[loyalsister]

16. I could not have forced myself to continue that conversation

I feared I would get confirmation that she sees people who aren't white basically as animals and doesn't care what they do. She is not quite a relative, but close. I have never heard anything as vile as stuff she says from any of the most disgusting RW media personalities.

[Coventina]

17. Understood. Sometimes it's just better to back away slowly.

If it's someone you don't have the option of cutting out of your life, it can be better to avoid creating an intolerable situation that might cause a hurt to a third party.

I have those sorts of minefields in my own extended family, and it's not fun....

[beam me up scottie]

3. Who's going to pay to support all of the children that aren't in "stable lasting relationships"?

Since many won't be the right colour I really have to wonder if they've thought this through.

[REP]

5. We're all already paying, but those kids pay the highest price

There's already far too many kids trapped in CPS/foster care because they were born to parents who weren't able or willing to care for them, and a stable relationship is just one factor of many. Encouraging "life, no matter how miserable" is a big factor, too.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Exactly.

Education, birth control and family planning should be free and accessible to all.

[REP]

4. Weird. I'm married, never had children ...

... and was sterilized long before equal marriage was recognized anywhere. Time-traveling Gay Agenda??!!11 or maybe I have free will and biology isn't destiny?

[blogslut]

7. I don't get it.

If we ban same-sex marriage then opposite-sex married couples will fuck more?

[joeybee12]

9. So basically, when hetero couples go to bed, and the wife has a headache, all the husband

has to say is "gay marriage is verboten" and then she's in the mood? Apparently that's what this Texas asshat is saying...the ban promotes childbrith, right?

[hobbit709]

10. "Greg Abbott is Rick Perry without the intelligence and charm"

As JuanitaJean says.

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. I'm sick of republicans! STFU and mind your own damn business!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

19. Well, who wouldn't recognize the fact gays have more children out of wedlock?