Marriage Equality Referendum: State should not deprive children

Force of circumstance is one thing, State design is something else entirely, writes Dr Thomas Finegan          

IMAGINE the following line of argument. Through force of circumstance, children all across Ireland grow up without either their father or their mother to care for them.

Because of this it is perfectly OK for the State to deliberately deprive a child of either a mother or a father by operation of its laws relating to adoption, surrogacy, and donor-assisted human reproduction. On top of this, anyone who objects to these laws is guilty of demeaning children who are already part of one-parent families.