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'''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 | + | 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] | ||
Revision as of 21:06, October 21, 2007
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."
- "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." [1]