Exactly what skin it is off their noses is unclear. They usually advocate a return to the traditional family. Might as well advocate for a return to a time before feminism, Charter rights, reproductive technology and services for victims of family abuse and violence. Why a religion would not sanction certain unions, I can understand. Hopefully this is the closest we will ever come to the religious integrationism of countries where the holy book of one religion becomes the law.
Families are here to stay.
They are the favoured way to live and our economic structure certainly prefers the nuclear family structure. Family is what you do, not who you are. We know that much about children's needs. The importance of that should not be lost on anyone contemplating having children, including married people. A decision by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal last month points out the need for a change in provincial laws to ensure children of married and unmarried parents are treated the same.