Alabama To SCOTUS: States Are Not In Business "To Regulate Love"

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange filed his appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court last night in a last-ditch attempt to have the stay placed on the recent ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage extended indefinitely.

As seen before, Strange assumes marriage laws are only about procreation. Tell that to the straight married couples who cannot or choose to not have children; or, to the senior couples who marry after child birth years.

From the AG's appeal:

The interests supported by opposite-sex marriage are, at the very least, rational. States are not in the marriage business “to regulate love.” Instead, state marriage laws link children to their biological parents (and link these biological parents to each other) by imposing a package of privileges and obligations—such as presumptions of paternity—that make less sense in the context of same-sex relationships. It is not irrational or malicious for state laws to reflect an “awareness of the biological reality that couples of the same sex do not have children the same way as couples of opposite sexes.” It is instead the background against which the institution of marriage has developed over the last several thousand years.