If We Treat People Equally, Then We Are Saying There Is No Individuality?

Amp, Lucia, Bean, and PDP always have excellent posts over at Alas, A Blog.  I can't link to all of them, and I assume much of my readership is already reading over there, so I generally don't bother highlighting any particular post there.  Today, though, I think Ampersand has a series of three posts that I cannot emphasize enough.  They are in response to this editorial by Rev. Keith Tolley in the New Hampshire Union Leader which rehashses some of the arguments about how SSM is an attack on children and motherhood. 

Ampersand points out what should be obvious.  Same-sex couples are already raising children and will continue to do so.  The question is whether those families should be allowed equal access to the protections marriage will provide.  Neither same-sex marriage nor same-sex parenting is saying that a child's father is irrelevant.  Finally, when we allow two different couples to both get married, that doesn't mean we think those couples are exactly identical and both will provide the exact same or even equally good child rearing environments.  We are just treating them equally before the law.   

[typos corrected]

Comments

[Ampersand]

Many thanks for the link. :-)

However, I think in your second-to-last sentence, there may be a typo. I think the phrase "that does mean" should probably be "that doesn't mean."

[Galois]

Thanks. I've corrected it :)