Who Needs Marriage?

Not same sex couples. Recently New York's highest court upheld a ban on same sex marriage. What's interesting, however, is the rationale - that straight couples may be less stable parents than their gay counterparts and so need marriage to keep them in line.

A Yale law school professor explains in the New York Times:

“Heterosexual intercourse,” the plurality opinion stated, “has a natural tendency to lead to the birth of children; homosexual intercourse does not.” Gays become parents, the opinion said, in a variety of ways, including adoption and artificial insemination, “but they do not become parents as a result of accident or impulse.”

Consequently, “the Legislature could find that unstable relationships between people of the opposite sex present a greater danger that children will be born into or grow up in unstable homes than is the case with same-sex couples.”

That's it folks. Same sex couples don't need marriage because they're likely to make better parents. So let's do the right thing and keep them from making the same mistake so many straight couples have made in the past - saying "i do."