Gay Tea Party Founder: If We Redefine Marriage, ‘We’re Going to Redefine Children’

Cybercast News Service ^ | March 25, 2013 | Michael James

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Three opponents of same-sex “marriage” spoke at the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday, including the gay co-founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots who argued that children are entitled to a biological mother and a father, and that if the government seeks to redefine marriage to include homosexual couples, it will necessarily also be redefining children.

“The redefining of marriage, quite frankly I think it’s nuts,” said Doug Mainwaring, co-founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots and a homosexual. “Being gay, I’ve had a long time to consider this, look at it.”

“I used to be pro-same-sex marriage, but the more I thought about it, it occurred to me this just isn’t right,” he said. “Marriage is the most successful institution that civilization has produced over the last few millennia, and we shouldn’t mess with it. If we attempt to redefine marriage, we’re going to redefine children in the same way. In fact, I prefer to use the term ‘undefine’.” …

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Thanks. That was very interesting, indeed. I shouldn’t have posted earlier without reading his whole statement.

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