With California marrying gay couples at record speed, I am thinking about the potential ramifications. For the average adult, i don’t see any real potential negative impact. But this isn’t just about adults. Right Democrat says this:

When you create a same sex marriage, you are simultaneously creating a same sex family. Our responsibility is to always ask, “What is in the best interest of children?” When it comes to marriage, children always do better when they grow up with a married mother and father.

No, gay marriage will not destroy society, but there IS a question of how it will affect families. We simply do not know what the outcome will be. What we do know is that decades of research (and Barack Obama’s last big speech) seem to indicate children benefit most from a mother AND a father. I do not care about the sex practices of gays. I don’t even really care if they get married. But I do wonder about how this will affect children. Gay marriage supporters can define this however they want (insert poor analogies to the civil rights movement here) but the reality is that this is an enormous social experiment. Who is potentially going to be hurt the most if it fails? Children.

I really like the way Asymmetric puts it:

Things like gay marriage don’t cause people to spontaneously combust, the only criteria for not trying a social experiment for many reformers…

It seems that many social reformers, on both sides of the aisle, use a similar litmus test for their ideals. “if it doesn’t destroy society, then it must be okay.” I think there’s a bit more to consider than that and I hope the rest of the country will be keeping a close eye on CA for the next few years.