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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If heterosexuals are allowed to marry each other in a civil ceremony, what's to prevent polygamy?
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Why is the government involved at all? The purported reason that government promotes marriage by conferring special benefits and rights on married people was because of biological and historical reasons as well as this thought that children are best raised by both a mother and a father.
I still maintain that children are best raised by both a mother and a father. Now plenty of single mothers do a good job raising their kids and there are gay couples that do a good job raising their kids. But just because they do a good job doesn't mean that the children would not have been better off with both a mother and a father.
Of course, good single parent households and good gay households are preferable to bad heterosexual married people raising kids. But if all else is equal, given the choice between a mother and a father raising a child together vs. two mothers or two fathers or one mother or one father raising a child, the mother/father duo is the best for the child.
