[Violette]

"Raise children? Not their own. Produce children?

They can't. For one, your comment hardly applies generally to homosexuals en masse. For another, their desire is in stark contrast to their ability, and in fact requires the involvement and contributions of others, ie, those who engage in an act of procreation and which act produces an offspring"

Their act of lovemaking cannot produce children. Just as with an infertal couple. Again, a homosexual couple (one of the members of the couple) will find a surrogate mother. If they are two women, one will find a sperm donor and have invetro fertalization. These are the same choices a single person has if they want to have baby.

"You still offer not a whit of a reason as to why a society should recognize this arrangement"

For the same reason we recognize the arrangement of a man marrying a woman who has had a histerectomy.

[mcg1969]

For the same reason we recognize the arrangement of a man marrying a woman who has had a histerectomy.

Not the same, for reasons I stated in #322. An infertile couple is fundamentally more qualified to provide the best possible environment for adoptive childrearing than a homosexual couple.

Certainly some homosexual couples can do better than some heterosexual couples. But the best homosexual couple will with certainty be inferior to the best heterosexual couple.