A Child's Birthright

   “If you really cared about children, you’d be encouraging people of the same-sex to marry.”  That’s pretty much what Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said in late August when he presided over oral arguments in cases dealing with Wisconsin’s and Indiana’s marriage protection laws.    
   Just nine days later, the court gave its ruling on the cases, siding with the lower courts that had said our marriage amendment and Indiana’s marriage statute are unconstitutional.  
   Judge Posner wrote the opinion and reiterated what he had said in the courtroom, adding that allowing same-sex couples to marry would take the stigma off the children in those relationships.
   That was in early September. However, meanwhile in another Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, a different story was brewing. Last month, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on marriage amendments in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Part of the filings that were done in that court included a friend-of-the-court brief with testimonies from four individuals who are being called the “quartet of truth.” All four of these folks, now adults, grew up in homes headed by homosexuals. Each testimony clearly and strongly makes the case that marriage should not be redefined to include people of the same-sex.
   B.N. Klein of the quar ...