"Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex……" — Stephen Reinhardt

"Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit."

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To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are…

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