by Bryan Fischer, AFA Director of Issue Analysis
Just when gays are finally convincing judges to let them marry each other, along comes Pres. Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, who wants to ban marriage completely.
Marriage licenses, he argues, have certain "unfortunate consequences," creating "inequalities" between married couples and singles. "Why not leave people's relationships to their own choices, subject to the judgments of private organization, religious and otherwise?"
There is a very simple and utterly compelling answer to this question, and it can be summed up in one word: children.
Sunstein seems to think marriage is just a thing for adults, but in the end, marriage is not about the adults involved, it's about the children married couples conceive and raise together.
An astronomical amount of social data confirms that marriage is good for children and cohabitation is bad for them. Children raised by married couples grow up in more secure financial environments, do better in school, wind up getting in far less trouble with the law, and are much more likely to create lasting stable marriages of their own as adults.
When we look at the social costs of broken homes and single parenting, costs borne by all taxpayers, it is plain that continuing to sanction man-woman marriage is a proper matter of public policy concern.
Sunstein's bizarre and dangerous theories are more evidence of just how radical our president is - he is deliberately surrounding himself with czars with frightening ideas that would turn America into something we would no longer recognize.
