The state of Virginia just filed its first legal brief in the marriage equality lawsuit there. It follows familiar right-wing dogma about marriage.
Think Progress reports:
Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R) is charged with defending Virginia’s bans on same-sex marriage from various lawsuits, and his office has filed its first defense brief. Cuccinelli has a long history of anti-gay viewpoints, which his brief unsurprisingly reflects. Like many anti-equality briefs filed before it, the state of Virginia argues that marriage should be specially reserved for opposite-sex couples because only they can procreate:
Traditional marriage is the institution that provides the greatest likelihood that both biological parents will nurture and raise the children they beget, and it is rational to consider this to be optimal for children and society at large. Marriage links potentially procreative sexual activity with child rearing by biological parents. Through civil recognition of marriage, society channels sexual desires capable of producing children into stable unions that will raise those children in the circumstances that may rationally be viewed as having been proven optimal.
Yes, optimal for right wing candidates who rely on a conservative base to get elected.
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