An amazing development in the ‘gay rights’ debate appears at the New York Times with David Blankenhorn claiming that he now believes “homosexual love” is EQUIVALENT in importance to the rights of children.

New York Times (Emphasis Mine):

No same-sex couple, married or not, can ever under any circumstances combine biological, social and legal parenthood into one bond. For this and other reasons, gay marriage has become a significant contributor to marriage’s continuing deinstitutionalization, by which I mean marriage’s steady transformation in both law and custom from a structured institution with clear public purposes to the state’s licensing of private relationships that are privately defined.

I have written these things in my book and said them in my testimony, and I believe them today. I am not recanting any of it.

But there are more good things under heaven than these beliefs. For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love. I don’t believe that opposite-sex and same-sex relationships are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over. Whatever one’s definition of marriage, legally recognizing gay and lesbian couples and their children is a victory for basic fairness.

“Equal dignity?” Homosexual attraction is EQUAL to the rights of children? In real world application, this is an argument for pedophilia, folks. If one’s attraction to someone of the same gender is EQUIVALENT to the right of a child, then it would follow that pedophilia is not an abuse of anyone’s rights.

I could not object more strongly to this.