Dan Savage: Washington State Marriage Decision

Dan Savage has an excellent commentary in the New York Times. Read the whole thing because it'll make you feel a little better about the recent defeats in Washington and New York. Here's a snippet:

"Both courts have found that my son’s parents have no right to marry, but what of my son’s right to have married parents? A perverse cruelty characterizes both decisions. The courts ruled, essentially, that making my child’s life less secure somehow makes the life of a child with straight parents more secure. Both courts found that making heterosexual couples stable requires keeping homosexual couples vulnerable. And the courts seemed to agree that heterosexuals can hardly be bothered to have children at all — or once they’ve had them, can hardly be bothered to care for them — unless marriage rights are reserved exclusively for heterosexuals. And the religious right accuses gays and lesbians of seeking 'special rights.'"

Since Michele Bachmann has made a career of making same-sex parents lives miserable, I'll call her out again (and this goes for Chuck Darrell over at Minnesota for Marriage (M4M)). What of the rights of the children of same-sex couples? Do they not deserve the right to have parents that are married? And if the debate is all about protecting children, then she either needs to concede that same-sex families need that protection, or else outlaw same-sex parenting. I think she's mean-spirited enough to entertain the thought.