From Salon.com: Ban on gay marriage denies justice to children.

The fact is, lesbians and gays are not going to stop having kids because we can’t marry. Our children are not going to disappear.

It would be nice if opponents of gay marriage recognized the fact that gay families with children already exist.

I kind of agree with Andrew Sullivan:

It seems to me that if children are the standard, then civil marriage should rationally apply only to those with kids, gay or straight, and civil unions should apply to everyone else. Everyone gets a civil union license at first (unless they already have kids) and can upgrade to a civil marriage license after and only after they have reproduced or adopted.

I’ve thought about this before and it makes lots of sense, even though it would probably be unworkable in practice.