Relativism Writ Large

Erm…ok. This article quotes a CDC research finding that declares children living in a nuclear family: “that is, in families consisting of two married adults who are the biological or adoptive parents of all children in the family”, are healthier than those living in non-nuclear families. The link this article first provides is to a christian website that states these CDC findings are not talking about married gay couples because it is a federal report and because of DOMA they do not recognize such marriages. 

Whether this is true or not the study goes on to state: “The findings in this report cannot be used to infer that family structure ‘‘caused’’ a particular child health outcome or that a child health outcome ‘‘caused’’ family structure. In fact, previous research has shown that causality may flow in both directions; that is, family structure may have consequences for child health outcomes, while children’s health may have consequences for family structure (42,43).”

In addition what this study cannot conclude is whether the inability for most gay couples to be married and to adopt on a nationwide level at the same time, affects the outcome of those that have adopted but not necessarily have married. This study does not take into account the negative externalities of the DOMA law on the ability for children in a household with two gay parents to benefit from health insurance and other protections granted to heterosexual couples (without sound reasoning or defense besides it being against Christianity, even though the Bible fails to mention “traditional marriage” but rather the exact opposite in it’s heros’ lives.)