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Argument:The quality of parenting should not be a factor in legalizing gay marriage, as it is not a legal factor in ordinary marriages
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- BBC, "Religion & Ethics - Same-Sex Marriage: Procreation", accessed 02/24/07
- many children are not brought up in traditional family units
- many children are brought by only one parent and thus lack role models of each gender
- many children are badly parented in traditional family units
- people in same-sex marriages may well not have children, and should not be penalised by concerns about parenting.
- Marriage is currently legally allowed among societal menaces, making it hard to use quality of homosexual parenting as an argument against gay marriage:
- Scott Bistrup "Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives" (2004) cites a protester as saying, "murderers, convicted felons of all sorts, even known child molesters are all allowed to freely marry and procreate and do so every day, with hardly a second thought, much less a protest, by these same critics [of gay marriage]."