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Carroll County Delegates

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Carroll County Government Leaders Sign Resolution Favoring Heterosexual Marriage

The resolution says that marriage between a man and a woman is the foundation of America's future.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners and four of the county's seven state representatives have adopted a joint resolution proclaiming marriage between a man and a woman as the "foundation of healthy families and a healthy future for America." The resolution says that children raised by heterosexual married couples will likely be healthier and more stable and successful than children raised in single-parent or same-sex parent households. According to the resolution, "Scientific evidence confirms that when the marriage tie frays, children suffer. Children raised outside of marriage are more likely to commit crime; fail at school and on the job; abuse drugs; lapse into physical and mental illness; become teen parents; to suffer material …

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