ALLAN C. CARLSON

The state can destroy families, but it can rarely save families.

Politicians all kiss babies but how do they stand on tax relief for families with children?

The reason we privilege marriage and tie benefits to it is to protect and encourage the institution into which new life comes. That's why we have benefits because traditional marriage creates children and that is where they have the most opportunity to grow up to be healthy, happy children. To extend the same benefits to relationships that do not create children surely dismantles the very reasons for those benefits.

The state can destroy families, but it can rarely save families.

Politicians all kiss babies but how do they stand on tax relief for families with children?

The reason we privilege marriage and tie benefits to it is to protect and encourage the institution into which new life comes. That's why we have benefits because traditional marriage creates children and that is where they have the most opportunity to grow up to be healthy, happy children. To extend the same benefits to relationships that do not create children surely dismantles the very reasons for those benefits.