Everyone who finds my "Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father" posts tiresome is invited to suck on this:

"Opposite-sex relationships are the only type capable of producing children through natural intercourse and the only ones assured of providing children with both a mother and a father. Affirming only opposite-sex relationships as 'marriage' thus makes perfect sense. But affirming same-sex relationships as 'marriages' makes no sense. These relationships are incapable of producing children through their sexual union. And while some homosexual couples do raise children (most of whom were conceived in previous heterosexual relationships), such arrangements by definition deprive a child of his or her birthright to be raised by both a biological mother and father. Maryland may choose to tolerate and even protect such unconventional childrearing by allowing adoption by homosexual partners or couples. But it has no obligation to actively affirm and celebrate (through 'marriage') the deliberate creation of permanently motherless or fatherless families."

So says Peter Sprigg, spokesperson for Family Research Council, an officially designated hate group. (And he got to say it in the Baltimore Sun.) It's interesting to note that the FRC is down with Maryland creating gay families—by allowing gay couples to adopt—but only so long as the state discriminates against the gay families that the state itself created. The state of Maryland, says the hater, should punish the children the state places with gay parents for the crime of having gay parents.

Also... someone needs to let Sprigg know that he's the reason—him, his organization, his co-religionists/bigots—that so many gays and lesbians have children that were "conceived in previous heterosexual relationships," and that having a mother and a father is no guarantee.