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However, since single parents can both have children and be gay, if the state took its assumed "defense of the children" role seriously, they would see that the gay parent isn't going to stop being gay in order to enter into a hetero marriage for the benefit of their child, and that anyone who did would by definition be creating a dysfunctional household, which we all know to NOT be in the child's best interests, and therefor encouraging the parent to enter into *A* stable relationship, even with a member of the same sex, would prove far more logical and feasible.

But the state is responsible for the welfare of ALL its citizens, and the state's gay citizens would be better off in stable, contractually-backed relationships than in a perpetual state of singleness. Therefore, if the state took its commission to promote the welfare of its citizens seriously, again, they should sanction gay marriages.