Mary Ann Glendon

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:
  1. that marriage is mainly an arrangement for the benefit of adults;
  2. that children do not need both a mother and a father; and
  3. that alternative family forms are just as good as a husband and wife raising kids together." [1]