by April Martin

About the author: April Martin, a psychologist, is the executive vice president of the Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International and the author of The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook.

The Hawaii legislature has directed the State's attorneys to use the "procreation" argument in their case against same-sex marriage: Since a man and a woman comprise the biological procreative unit, only heterosexual couples need the protection that marriage provides. [A Hawaiian trial court legalized same-sex marriage in December 1996.]

Four million lesbian and gay parents are dumbfounded. Are our eight million children not in need of protection"

Gays Are Parents

Same-sex couples are not biological procreative units, but they are nevertheless parents. They raise children in families where, most often, one parent is related only by devotion and hard work to the biological children of the...