MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN: Mary Catelli replies to Mark Barton

Mark Barton offers: "But no one asks whether a prospective bride and groom intend to bear children or even can bear children."

The current treatment of heterosexual vs. homosexual couples is indeed rather broadbrush. That is not proof that it should not be made. Consider three men, all twenty when World War II broke out. John Doe was drafted and served in the infantry, suffering crippling injuries. Richard Roe was drafted and served as a file clerk. James Poe was not drafted and worked in a clothing factory for uniforms, suffering crippling injuries in an industrial accident. Unfair though it is, Doe and Roe are veterans, and no one asks if they were shot at when handing out the veteran's benefits. This is because the effort of sorting out the deserving vs. the undeserving -- once you've defined who is who -- would be many times the cost of providing for all veterans, but the effort of sorting out the veterans from the non-veterans is much simpler.
posted by Eve at 11:51 AM VOTE

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