Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and
president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), argues that gay marriage creates
“structural inequality” for children.
During an appearance Tuesday on
Lutheran Public Radio's Issues,
etc., Morse said that the “essential public purpose” of
marriage “is to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to
one another.”
“And, obviously, same-sex couples are
different, with respect to that purpose,” she said.
“Even though some married couples
don't have children, the fact is every child has parents and every
child deserves to know who their parents are and who they are. What
their genetic background is. What their social-cultural-emotional
background is. Every child is entitled to that.”
“So in order to make the same-sex
couples equal on their wedding day to the opposite-sex couples,
you're telling children that some of them are going to be more equal
than others. And I don't think as a society we really have the right
to just be doing that. To have the state intervening and creating
that kind of structural inequality among different children.”