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Kids need both mom and dad

Published: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008 12:19 a.m. MST
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It is fascinating that in the name of tolerance and love anyone not accepting the homosexual political agenda is hated and smeared. However, that doesn't change the facts.

Marriage is, at base, a method for raising children. Research now overwhelmingly bears out what common sense has told us: Children grow up best in the homes of two parents of opposite sexes — preferably their own parents.

In Europe, where homosexual "marriage" is legal, the rate of children being raised in two-parent homes is sliding drastically because people are not marrying. Is giving a few self-indulgent adults "warm fuzzies" worth the price to the millions of children who will lose what they need most, a mother and a father?

Richard Coxson

Spanish Fork

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