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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.

All children should have equal opportunities.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.