"...A couple of the bishops questioned Wilcox about same-sex marriage, which they seemed to assume is bad for children. To his credit, Wilcox noted that the research doesn’t back that up. Stability, he noted, is the key.
“Most of the scientists would say that there’s no difference… between a stable same-sex family and a stable heterosexual family,” Wilcox told the bishops.
He later added, “I think that the assumption…is that when same-sex marriage is legalized and it is given cultural support, it will be as stable as heterosexual marriage.”
When Bishop Joseph Tyson of Washington state asked if there was data to back that up, Wilcox replied, “The data suggest that same-sex couples – and this is really preliminary – are more likely to have stable relationships when the legal regime is more supportive of their relationships.”
So families do better when the government offers them support and values them? You don’t say! Somehow I’m thinking this was not the answer the bishops wanted to hear. (This is especially noteworthy because Wilcox has not exactly been a fan of same-sex marriage in the past.)..."
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