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members of Congress on July 5 in supporting the
Military Readiness Enhancement Act, a bill to
repeal the federal “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on
queer military personnel. He represents Maryland’s
3rd District, which includes the U.S. Naval
Academy and parts of the city of Baltimore. Cardin
is the third member of the Maryland delegation to
co-sponsor the bill.
“Congressional leaders in large military districts
are increasingly speaking out against ‘don’t ask,
don’t tell,’ ” said C. Dixon Osburn, executive direc
tor of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.
“Congressman Cardin’s support of repeal legislation
honors those 65,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual serv
ice members serving silently at the Naval Academy
and elsewhere in the world. His sponsorship of this
legislation sends a clear message that repealing
‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is in the best interest of our
armed forces and of our nation.”
U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., introduced
the act in March 2005. The legislation would
repeal the military’s prohibition on open service by
queer recruits and replace it with a policy of
nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orienta
tion. Since 1993, more than 10,000 men and
women have been discharged under the “don’t ask,
don’t tell" law at a cost of at least $363.8 million,
according to a study from University of California
at Santa Barbara.
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A report in the July 5 issue of Pediatrics, the
journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
shows that legal recognition for same-gender
partners benefits their children.
The 16-page report, which includes a review of
the growing body of medical literature on same
gender parenting, concludes that “children of
same-gender parents often experience economic,
legal and familial insecurity as a result of the
absence of legal recognition of their bonds to non-
biological parents” and that “legal recognition of a
[same-gender] spouse can increase the ability of
adult couples to provide and care for one another
and fosters a nurturing and secure environment for
their children.” The 2000 census found that same
gender couples are raising children in 96 percent
of all U.S. counties.
Dr. Ellen C. Perrin, director of developmental-
behavioral pediatrics and the Center for Children
with Special Needs at the Floating Hospital for
Children Tufts-New England Medical Center and
one of the authors of the report, said: “The scientific
data overwhelmingly demonstrate that there is no
relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and
any measure of children’s emotional, psychosocial
and behavioral adjustment. We conclude that civil
marriage is beneficial to children, regardless of the
gender of the parents, because it strengthens families
and helps foster financial and legal security,
psychosocial stability and an augmented sense of
societal acceptance and support.”
Court Denies Protections
to Same-Sex Couples
By a 4-2 vote, the New York Court of Appeals
elected July 6 to uphold a state law that bars same-
sex couples from marriage and denies them the
hundreds of family protections provided to married
couples.
In the decision, the court accepted the justifi
cations advanced for the law by New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer. Pointing out that straight
couples can conceive children by “accident” while
gay couples can only have children with advance
planning, Bloomberg and Spitzer argued that
straight couples need the stability of marriage, but
gay couples do not.
The court also accepted an argument that had
been rejected by the Arkansas Supreme Court just
a week earlier, when it struck down a policy barring
gay people from serving as foster parents: the
notion that children of mixed-gender parents are
more likely to thrive. In its embrace of this
contention, the court ignored the advice of leading
child health and welfare organizations and dis
missed decades of social science research proving
that same-sex couples are as capable of being good
parents as straight people and that their children
are equally well-adjusted.
Chief Justice Judith Kaye was joined by Judge
Carmen Ciparick in a stinging dissent. “This state
has a proud tradition of affording equal rights to all
New Yorkers. Sadly, the court today retreats from
that proud tradition,” Kaye wrote. “1 am confident
that future generations will look back on today’s
decision as an unfortunate misstep."
MASSACHUSETTS
Marriage Vote Postponed
The Massachusetts constitutional convention
recessed July 12 without considering an amend
ment that would have effectively overruled the
state high court’s 2004 decision legalizing same-sex
marriage.
The convention has
recessed until Nov. 9,
leaving the fate of the
pending initiative peti
tion proposal uncertain.
However, rights advo
cates were accentuating
the positive.
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