Utah state attorneys argue children at risk from gay marriage

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Utah state attorneys argue children at risk from gay marriage

BY JENNIFER DOBNER
SALT LAKE CITY Tue Feb 4, 2014 7:23pm EST

(Reuters) - Utah attorneys seeking to overturn a federal court decision that struck down a state ban on gay marriage have argued in appeals papers that prohibiting same-sex unions is crucial to safeguarding the best interests of children.

The conservative, heavily Mormon state briefly became the 18th U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage when a federal judge ruled in December that a state ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.

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"As between mutually exclusive models of marriage, the man-woman model is simply the one the state and its people believe is best for children," Utah state attorneys said in filings submitted late on Monday to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The court brief argued that risks to children from same-sex marriage include the emotional toll of growing up without a father or mother because their parents would be of the same gender. It also suggested birthrates in Utah might decline due to adults opting for same-sex unions instead of procreating.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/us-usa-gaymarriage-utah-idUSBREA131SJ20140205

[Politicalboi]

1. Coming from a state that allows

Guns in the home with children.

How come they don't get that children who were raised by "straight" parents still turned out gay.

[Shrike47]

2. In Oregon, where I practiced juvenile law, we would happily allow same sex couples to adopt.

The kids seemed OK with it. I've known lesbians who had children, they seemed OK. I guess I'm not sufficiently observant.

[defacto7]

3. Ahhh, here's the real point,

"It also suggested birthrates in Utah might decline due to adults opting for same-sex unions instead of procreating. "

The Mormon religion (LDS) has always promoted large or even huge families. Their belief says that the more children a couple has the more blessed they are of Elohim (their name for god), thus the reason Mormons have promoted multiple wives per male. That is until they wanted Utah to be a state. Then they had to put into their constitution a ban on polygamy per agreement with the US government. Mormons continued to practice polygamy in secret where a man would marry one woman and take her "sisters" into his home. A couple of months ago, that ban on polygamy was lifted.

You see, they believe by their core religious system that more children means more souls are brought out of a kind of mid-heaven to be "real live humans" so they can populate the universe and other planets with souls. Every Mormon is a potential god of a new planet. They need souls so they can have people to be god over. They can't allow procreation to be undermined because of their RELIGION. Not to mention the belief that non-Mormon Christians will be their servants and concubines on their new planet.

Anyone in Utah ever heard of separation of Church and State? Freedom of religion stops where beliefs infringe on or affect the laws of government. Or does it? Or will it? Or will we allow it?

[NCLefty]

4. These people never spoke up when my parents were divorcing each other multiple times.

Weird.