Focus on the Family Comments on Impending Massachusetts Ruling

BOSTON, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Focus on the Family is mobilizing in preparation for a ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on whether to order the state grant marriage licences to homosexuals – a ruling expected this weekend or early next week.  Glenn Stanton, a senior analyst for Focus on the Family, said, “The foundation of marriage, as a union between male and female, has been recognized and accepted throughout all of human history. But now the courts, in their arrogance, have the ability to erase all of that in favour of their own personal ideas of what marriage should look like, and we should all be concerned.”  Dr. Bill Maier, vice president and psychologist-in-residence for Focus on the Family, said of the impending decision, “Over the past 30 years we’ve seen the devastating impact that divorce, out-of-wedlock births and fatherlessness has had on America’s children. Kids clearly suffer when they are deprived of a family with both a mom and a dad. The proposition of same-sex ‘marriage’ and its logical consequences will harm millions of children by intentionally denying them either a mother or a father.”  For CNSNews coverage:  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200307/CUL20030 710d.html   For previous LifeSite coverage:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jul/03070903.html