On Gay & Straight Marriage

Maggie Gallagher, writing in National Review Online today, hits on a point I wish would get more attention, instead of the name-calling that has taken its place:

To say that there are no important differences between gay couples and opposite-sex couples is to deny that the one great feature of opposite-sex couples — that these unions, and only these unions, can both produce children and unite that child with his own mother and father — is unimportant. (emphasis mine)

There are hugely important and unique contributions that moms & dads make to the upbringing of their children, and there is no other relationship that can produce these children and provide the balanced upbringing that is proven to be most beneficial.