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Steve Pearce: “Marriage is about children and it is about the best institution for raising children, and that is the issue. Kids are…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2004
Marriage is about children and it is about the best institution for raising children, and that is the issue. Kids are better off with a mother and father. The issue is not whether gays can be good parents or not; no one is talking about that. We are saying that children are generally better off with a loving mother and a loving father; and that is the role, that is the method, that is the paradigm that works best.
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Steve Pearce
New Mexico

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Discussing the importance of traditional marriage in relation to child-rearing.

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