Why Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting Are Ridiculous

I can’t even read all the examples he gives of hetero parents abusing and killing their own offspring, but Terrance’s point is so obvious that you hardly need the heartbreaking supporting details to understand it:

I don’t write about this story as an attempt to suggest that all, most, or even a significant number of heterosexuals do this to children, but to point out how low the bar is set when equal protections are conditional upon a pairing of functional, or even potentially functional gonads. Making babies, something only possible with sperm from the testicles and an egg from the ovaries, is thus privileged above the capacity to love a child, and the ability and desire to protect and raise that child into healthy adulthood, something same-sex couples are equally capable of doing.

In other words, privileging couples like Zeigler and Trenor above couples like the hubby and me, who’ve loved and raised our son into a happy, healthy little boy in the past five years. Because we did not and could not have conceived him. Conception, or the possibility thereof, trumps caring. It is unclear whether Trenor and Zeigler are married, believe it or not, but they could be as far as the Maryland Court of appeals is concerned, and would qualify before the hubby and I would, what they did to Riley Ann not withstanding. [...]

With each case I’m still trying to wrap my brain around what these parents have over us, besides the what they can (or could) do with their genitals and corresponding orgnans [sic].

What those parents have over Terrance and his partner is a religious belief enshrined in government policy.