Presumably what you mean is whether children raised by gay couples end up less well-adjusted than they would if they weren’t raised by gay couples, right?
I mean, to pick an extreme case for clarity: if it turned out that gay couples only ever raised children who would never have been raised by straight couples even if there were no gay couples, then I don’t see how the fact you cite is relevant to gay marriage.
Whether that’s relevant depends on your values in the first place: are you a harm-based consequentialist?
As it happens, yesterday I took a survey (“Argument Evaluations”) on YourMorals.org which asked exactly that question (“how relevant is the argument that ‘children raised by gay couples may be harmed’ to the morality of gay marriage”) and you will be unsurprised to look at the results and see that people differ on what arguments are relevant to the morality of gay marriage:
Well, there are some relevant facts, such as whether children raised by gay couples end up less well-adjusted than those raised by straight couples.
Presumably what you mean is whether children raised by gay couples end up less well-adjusted than they would if they weren’t raised by gay couples, right?
I mean, to pick an extreme case for clarity: if it turned out that gay couples only ever raised children who would never have been raised by straight couples even if there were no gay couples, then I don’t see how the fact you cite is relevant to gay marriage.
Whether that’s relevant depends on your values in the first place: are you a harm-based consequentialist?
As it happens, yesterday I took a survey (“Argument Evaluations”) on YourMorals.org which asked exactly that question (“how relevant is the argument that ‘children raised by gay couples may be harmed’ to the morality of gay marriage”) and you will be unsurprised to look at the results and see that people differ on what arguments are relevant to the morality of gay marriage:
(Green is me.)