In the article Ryan Anderson says Redefining marriage further distances marriage from the needs of children and denies the importance of mothers and fathers. Redefining marriage rejects as a matter of policy the ideal that children need a mother and a father. The statistics on the importance of marriage penetrate American life to the extent that President [Barack] Obama can refer to them as well known: "We know the statistics that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to dropout of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison," Obama said less than five months before he was elected president in 2008.
If justice demands redefining marriage to include
If justice demands redefining marriage to include