Should New Hampshire repeal gay marriage?

Pro Issue Opinion by Karen Testerman, for repeal:

Genuine marriage maintains policies that are best for the continuation of a civil and productive society:

• It is scientific fact that procreation can only occur with the union of a man and a woman. The children that result are the next generation that will secure the continuation of a society. The proven best environment for children is when raised by their biological mother and father. Anything less has a high potential to be a burden on society. Counterfeit marriages, while advertised as based on love, are focused on the egos and perceived artificial rights of the individuals. There is no way for a counterfeit marriage to produce a child without bringing in another individual and thereby add confusion and burdens on society.

Every child has a mother and a father and deserves to live and be raised by them:

• The role of the mother is no more important than the role of the father. Biologically there are physiological happenings when that child relates in the presence of each parent that are important to the healthy development of the child. When either role is missing the child will seek to fulfill that need. Most of our government support programs are in existence to help fix the fallout that occurs from fractured families.

Counterfeit marriages take away individual rights:

• Creating an unnatural class and assigning rights to it denies the rights of others. We infringe on the rights of conscience of individuals that affect their income and remove free speech and association. In Massachusetts and California, parents cannot exercise their freedom to educate their children in their ideology. In Connecticut. a church cannot exercise their freedom to rent to whom they choose. In Arizona, a photographer is not allowed to exercise her freedom to provide her services to whom she chooses.

A legislature cannot grant rights:

• America is different from any other country in the world, except Israel, because as acknowledged in our Declaration of Independence our rights come from our Creator. Our rights are not appropriated and distributed by a monarch, a dictator or and elite class. Our Creator made us male and female, and we are to be fruitful and multiply.

Government must protect the next generation:

• When our people lack self governance, a vacuum is created and government must step in. Government needs people entering into a genuine marriage to assure that the mother AND more importantly, the father acknowledges and accepts the responsibility for their children to insure that the male who impregnates a woman is responsible for the woman and is also responsible for the well being of their children.

Marriage is the economic engine of our society:

• When a married mother and father raise the children they produce, the children are healthier and less likely to be involved with law enforcement or become an unwed mother. These factors alone put less of a financial burden on society. 70% of the boys in juvenile justice have no father in the home. When a person graduates from high school, gets a full time job and gets married before they have children, they are 70% less likely to be in poverty.