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that marriage is mainly an arrangement for the benefit of adults; that children do not need both a mother and a father ???
'''Mary Ann Glendon''' is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at [[Harvard]].
'''Mary Ann Glendon''' is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at [[Harvard]].
She wrote, "What [[same-sex marriage]] advocates have tried to present as a civil rights issue is really a bid for special preferences of the type our society gives to married couples for the very good reason that most of them are raising or have raised children." [http://www.afajournal.org/2004/april/404don.asp]
She wrote:
*"What [[same-sex marriage]] advocates have tried to present as a civil rights issue is really a bid for special preferences of the type our society gives to married couples for the very good reason that most of them are raising or have raised children."
*"Same-sex marriage will constitute a public, official endorsement of the following extraordinary claims made by the Massachusetts judges in the Goodridge case: that marriage is mainly an arrangement for the benefit of adults; that children do not need both a mother and a father; and that alternative family forms are just as good as a husband and wife raising kids together." [http://www.afajournal.org/2004/april/404don.asp]