Senator Santorum on marriage, the reasons for:

[gridlore]

Why? Because -- principally because of children. I mean, it's -- it is the reason for marriage. It's not to affirm the love of two people. I mean, that's not what marriage is about. I mean, if that were the case, then lots of different people and lots of different combinations could be, quote, "married."

Marriage is not about affirming somebody's love for somebody else. It's about uniting together to be open to children, to further civilization in our society.

Well, I'm shocked. Read the entire transcript here.

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[isomeme.livejournal.com]

The thing is, he has a point. As many of us have argued, government has no business whatsoever regulating what two or more people decide to do in terms of mutual commitment. In that sense, I advocate abolishing all legal recognition of marriage, straight, gay, or otherwise.

However, if government does have a legitimate interest in this area, it is in seeing to it that children are properly cared for no matter what decisions their parents make. Of course, in this age of out-of-wedlock kids and easy divorce, that function really isn't served by marriage anymore, but you can see what the Senator is driving at, I think.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

What got me was that as an infertile man, Sen, Santorum is effectively telling me that my marriage is pointless. I've heard this from various other sectors, and when yjey find out I can't have kids, they backpeddle pretty quickly.

[thebitterguy]

I actually got a lot of this when I was going to get married; we actually couldn't get married in an Orthodox church because my wife was old enough for kids to be an issue.

I can't wait for someone to pull the 'makin' babies' bit on me either.

Yeah, and...

[firecat]

...how does he get from "marriage is about raising children" to "people can't marry someone of their own sex"? Does he think people who are attracted to people of their own sex never have children? He'd be quite mistaken.