We believe that the institution of marriage serves both a personal and a public purpose within our society. As such, our public policy should promote healthy and strong marriages, rather than seek to create new definitions of marriage that undermine the institution’s role and which are not in the best interest of children.
When you create a same-sex marriage, you are simultaneously creating a same-sex family. And now the question becomes what is the impact to children? Same sex marriage subjects children to a vast untested social experiment. The bottom line is that kids need a mom and a dad. An enormous body of research in peer reviewed journals over the past 30-40 years demonstrates that kids do always better when they are raised in a home with a married mother and father.
Single parents do the best they can and should be supported and encouraged by a surrounding community of care. However, our public policy must always seek to ask what is in the best interest of children. And a loving and compassionate society always comes to the aid of fatherless and motherless homes. But a loving and civilized society never intentionally creates inherently fatherless and motherless families as a matter of law and public policy. Amendment 2 protects the current definition of marriage for future generations of Floridians.