Well, as expected, HJR6 did pass the Iowa House. The anti-marriage-equality resolution was eloquently attacked by many able House members, but the votes were already there to pass it out of the House. A low point in the debate today can be found in the remarks of Republican Representative Rich Anderson of Clarinda, who played the absurd "slippery slope" card and then went on to opine that "[W]e want to protect something called responsible procreation,” said Anderson, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “We want to drive procreation into a stable relationship and procreation only happens between a male and a female. See a male and a female can do something that a homosexual couple cannot: They can create children accidentally. That’s the issue. It’s not about love. It’s not about romance. It’s about driving state policy toward responsible procreation."Guess what, Representative Anderson? I know just what you're talking about.
I work in family law, and any family lawyer will tell you that we spend a distressing amount of our time dealing with males and females who have accidentally created children together. But I would never DARE to call that responsible procreation, and you're a fool for even suggesting that. It's the most irresponsible procreation imaginable--resulting in children being raised by parents who barely know one another, custody fights, unpaid child support, abuse allegations, estrangement, acrimony, and downright hatred. Compare those children's likely futures to the very intentional decision of two people in love to have a child like Zach Wahls, who spoke with passion and love on the floor of the Iowa House last night.
We don't need more accidental children. We need more committed, loving families.
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