{"id":7621,"date":"2006-06-07T13:07:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2006-06-07T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T17:07:49","slug":"wont-someone-please-think-of-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wont-someone-please-think-of-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Won’t someone please think of the children…."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the [tag]FMA[\/tag] failed again today, managing to do slightly worse<\/i> than<\/a><\/strike> about the same as in 2004. How did supporters manage to regress after gaining allies in [tag]Congress[\/tag]? I suspect exchanges like this one<\/a> from a press conference on the Hill help explain part of the problem.<\/p>\n

[Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.)] held a news conference Monday at which the speakers said they wanted to reduce the “epidemic level of fatherlessness in America.”<\/p>\n

“How would outlawing gay marriage encourage heterosexual fathers to stick around?” was the first question. Allard skirted the question by saying that “laws send a message to our [tag]children[\/tag].”<\/p>\n

The moderator, Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage, tried to find a question on another subject. But when reporters continued to press Allard on the link between same-sex marriage and deadbeat dads, Daniels blurted out: “All right, you know what? We’re going to call this press conference to a close.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rhetorically, at least, supporters of the [tag]amendment[\/tag] spent an almost-ridiculous amount of time arguing that gay marriage would lead to children without parents. [tag]Focus on the Family[\/tag] ran<\/a> a series of print ads<\/a> across the country asking, “Why doesn’t Senator [fill in the blank] believe every child needs a [tag]mother[\/tag] and a [tag]father[\/tag]?” The ads explained:<\/p>\n

“It is a painful but very real truth. Homosexual marriages intentionally create motherless families or fatherless families. But a compassionate society would not deliberately deny a child a mother or father.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s always a mistake to look for logic in far-right claims, but aren’t these arguments geared towards opposition to [tag]gay[\/tag] [tag]adoption[\/tag]? Taking this approach just one step further, wouldn’t conservatives also want a constitutional amendment banning divorce among couples with children?<\/p>\n

On second thought, it’s probably best not to give these guys any ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the [tag]FMA[\/tag] failed again today, managing to do slightly worse than about the same as in 2004. How did supporters manage to regress after gaining allies in [tag]Congress[\/tag]? I suspect exchanges like this one from a press conference on the Hill help explain part of the problem. [Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.)] held a news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}