When two adults who cannot procreate want to raise children together, where do those babies come from? Each child is conceived by a mother and a father to whom that child has a natural right. When a child is placed in a same-sex-headed household, she will miss out on at least one critical parental relationship and a vital dual-gender influence. The nature of the adults’ union guarantees this. Whether by adoption, divorce, or third-party reproduction, the adults in this scenario satisfy their heart’s desires, while the child bears the most significant cost: missing out on one or more of her biological parents.

Making policy that intentionally deprives children of their fundamental rights is something that we should not endorse, incentivize, or promote.

This holds no weight. When a child is raised by a heterosexual married couple there can be any number of reasons why one of the biological parents shouldn't be a part of that child's life. Adopted children that are taken out of a bad and abusive situation and then are given to a loving family, are they being stripped of their fundamental rights? Believe it or not, there are plenty of children raised by gay couples that would feel that their fundamental rights were being stripped away if their parents couldn't be married.

I cringe when I think of it now, because it was a lie. My parents’ divorce has been the most traumatic event in my thirty-eight years of life. While I did love my mother’s partner and friends, I would have traded every one of them to have my mom and my dad loving me under the same roof.

You're a conservative, you want small government, right? Why do you want them dictating who can and cannot be married? If you are of a legal age to make a contract, you can marry whomever else is also of that legal age and of sound mind/body. Period.

One of the girls that watches our children was raised by two dads. She is one of the kindest and most well-adjusted young people we know. If you REALLY care about getting the "I have lived it" view, then you don't have to go too far to get it. There's a reason that stories like these (and I'll admit I only read the first) are not plentiful in the media and it's not because they "don't fit the agenda," but because they're less prevalent.

Guess what, some gay couples are going to be shitty parents and some children of gay couples are going to have a rough childhood. But we ALL know and perhaps have been a victim of heterosexual parents that had no right having kids. A penis and a vagina don't automatically qualify you for parents of the year.

EDIT: Also, marriage does not automatically mean becoming parents. I have plenty of friends that are happily married and don't have children. I refuse the premise that people get married because they want to have children. People get married because they're in love with one another and want to spend their lives together. Often times this will lead to having children but increasingly more and more couples are choosing to not have children.

Edit 2: This article, in response to the article you posted says it better than I could.

"Two adults who cannot procreate" is not a stand-in for "same-sex couple." Many opposite-sex couples cannot have biological children on their own, and many of them ultimately choose adoption. Adoptive parents, be they gay or straight, are not biologically connected to their children. There is no logically consistent way that Katy Faust can use a line about adopted kids "missing out on one or more of her biological parents" and confine that line only to the kids of same-sex parents. There are millions of kids of straight parents who fall into that very same category!