Marriage Equality is shortly to host an EU-funded conference in Dublin that will present research (based on tiny samples) purporting to show that children don't need mothers and fathers. Somehow or another we have arrived at a point where many people are willing to entertain the notion that a child has no need of the two people who brought them into the world.

In any event, here is a rather useful point by American commentator Bill Murchison that I came across today:

"A second, genuinely urgent thing that marriage does -- and no gay relationship possibly can -- is project the human race into the future. We read of gay couples raising children, but not their own: I mean, not as unified couples. Someone outside the relationship had to do the heavy biological lifting one partner or the other couldn't do. The point is suggestive of the need for the two formally conjoined birth forces, Mom and Dad, to carry on what they began: not, as it were, harvesting children but loving what they have brought into the world together; training these new creatures, instructing them, fitting them for the future."

Common sense, surely?