re: #530 DaddyG

Yup - which is why I would not support legislating against gay marriage. Although imagine the uproar on both sides if a longitudanal study was done on the efficacy of different parental arrangements on the raising of children? Expecially of polygamy, communal parenting or some other wildly non-traditional arrengement came out on top.

Such a study would indeed be mind-blowing. (I don’t know where you would get the families to include, but that’s a different point.) But remember: all the state needs is a rational basis to forbid the practice. It doesn’t HAVE to be related to child-rearing outcomes. It could be something else.