Here’s Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) getting Focus on the Family’s Thomas Minnery to admit, at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that children of same-sex couples are at a disadvantage because their parents don’t have the same financial benefits as children of married couples. (Thanks to Think Progress.)
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His statements/questions don’t make any sense! It’s not the sex of the parents that determines whether children would be better off, it’s the jobs and financial status of that family. A same sex family can be just as well/poor off as an opposite sex family.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what he’s saying…but it sounded like he was trying to twist the public’s opinion by asking a confusing question.
What he was asking was if same-sex couples are not able to apply for a particular benefit together, because they are not able to be married, then their children would not be able to receive that benefit. I am Canadian, so I am not sure what kind of government benefits you guys have, but here that could mean parental leave benefits, health care benefits, insurance, etc. etc. This would be regardless of income.