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Dana Nessel: Schuette's Absurd Waste of Millions Battling Same-Sex Marriage
@DeadlineDetroit Dana Nessel: Schuette's Absurd Waste of Millions Battling Same-Sex Marriage – Deadline Detroit: Let's hope the voters remember this in 2018. Also, it should be noted that for the first nine months, this case was a simple effort to amend the Michigan Adoption Code to allow children being raised by same-sex couples to have two parents.
Bill Schuette fought us tooth-and-nail on that as well, which is what led the case to morph into a same-sex marriage case. Schuette's argument?
If the courts allow both partners in a same-sex couple to adopt, it eliminates the hope that one of the parents will eventually turn away from their sinful orientation, go straight, and marry a partner of the opposite sex who can then adopt the child(ren) with their reformed gay spouse.
This is not a fabrication. It was really Schuette's argument. And the 2 million dollars? ...
http://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/13400/dana_nessel_schuette_s_absurd_waste_of_millions_battling_same-sex_marriage#.Vhux2G6ZfwC
Bill Schuette fought us tooth-and-nail on that as well, which is what led the case to morph into a same-sex marriage case. Schuette's argument?
If the courts allow both partners in a same-sex couple to adopt, it eliminates the hope that one of the parents will eventually turn away from their sinful orientation, go straight, and marry a partner of the opposite sex who can then adopt the child(ren) with their reformed gay spouse.
This is not a fabrication. It was really Schuette's argument. And the 2 million dollars? ...
http://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/13400/dana_nessel_schuette_s_absurd_waste_of_millions_battling_same-sex_marriage#.Vhux2G6ZfwC