Shotgun Weddings Why Gays Shouldn’t be Allowed to Marry
“Only a man and a woman can beget a child together without advance planning, which means that opposite-sex couples have a unique tendency to produce unplanned and unintended offspring,” wrote Paul Clement, a prominent attorney representing congressional Republicans in the DOMA case.
Clement added in his brief to the Supreme Court arguing to uphold that law that the government has a legitimate interest in solely recognizing marriages between men and women because it encourages them to form stable family units.
“Because same-sex relationships cannot naturally produce offspring, they do not implicate the State’s interest in responsible procreation and childrearing in the same way that opposite-sex relationships do,” attorneys who are seeking to uphold Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California in 2008, argued in their brief.
In the administration’s friend of the court brief, the Justice Department took a dim view of the argument.
“Marriage is far more than a societal means of dealing with unintended pregnancies,” the Justice Department wrote. The brief also argued that preventing gay couples from marrying would not help or hurt the quest to encourage straight couples to marry when they have children.
That’s right, Tina Fey’s spoof of Sara Palin is now writing the Supreme Court legal briefs for the Congressional GOP.