Letter to the Editor

PFLAG Members 'Disappointed and Dismayed' by Joint Marriage Resolution

The Carroll County commissioners and delegates signed a Joint Marriage Resolution in June favoring heterosexual marriage. The following letter was submitted to the commissioners by the Westminster-Carroll County chapter of PFLAG.

To the Honorable Commissioners and Delegates, This letter is in response to Joint Resolution 817-11, which was meant to “reaffirm the special status of marriage in America.”  The members of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Westminster-Carroll County chapter are disappointed and dismayed by this resolution. The resolution mixes personal opinion with scientific evidence to a point where we believe the facts must be accurately portrayed. The resolution claims that “[s]cientific evidence confirms that when the marriage tie[sic] frays, children suffer.”  Members of our organization were left scratching our heads, because not one scientific source is cited in the resolution and not a single one was mentioned at the …

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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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Kathy

7:17 am on Thursday, August 4, 2011

Excellent points, all!   more ›