Austin R. Nimocks blogged about David Blankenhorn's testimony from the perspective of the legal team defending the constitutionality of the California marriage amendment:
Some snippets for the ADF's daily update, January 26, 2010.
David Blankenhorn [is] a Harvard graduate and nationally renowned author and expert on the question of marriage. Mr. Blankenhorn is regularly invited by leading same-sex “marriage” advocates to attend symposiums and debates on the topic, and Mr. Blankenhorn’s two books,The Future of Marriage and Fatherless America, are well-known and authoritative sources in the marriage arena. In fact, Mr. Blankenhorn was cited by both the California Supreme Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court when deciding the questions in their states regarding same-sex “marriage.”
[Click here to read the rest of the blogpost.]
Mr. Blankenhorn made some very powerful points during his examination and firmly disavowed the idea that marriage is merely about the private desires of adults. Throughout its history, marriage has been a child-centered institution, focusing on what’s best for children. Mr. Blankenhorn also affirmed the extremely large body of literature which establishes a broad consensus amongst scholars that the optimal environment for children is where they are raised by their natural mother and father. By defining marriage as one man and one woman, we encourage this optimal environment. Same-sex “marriage,” on the other hand, intentionally deprives children of either a mother or a father, thereby denying them the opportunity for that optimal environment.
Mr. Blankenhorn also noted the important and disturbing trend about marriage in our country in the last three to five decades—that we, as a society, have been de-institutionalizing marriage ourselves through no-fault divorce, adultery, and out-of-wedlock childbearing. Ushering in same-sex “marriage,” according to Mr. Blankenhorn, would further de-institutionalize and devalue marriage to an unrecognizable point and can usher in what he called “new family forums” like polygamy, polyandry, and polyamory. Clearly, maintaining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is what is best not only for our children, but for society as a whole.
Also read:
"Parenthood and the Rights of Children."
"Negative Consequences of SSM."
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