“This Isn’t the Way to Ban Same-Sex Marriage”

"Without strong family structures, there will be no stable and healthy
social order, and alternative marriage structures might weaken the
sanction of law and custom necessary for human families to flourish and
children to grow.  These are no small risks, and present trends are not
often more sound than the cumulative wisdom of the centuries.  Is it too
much to ask that judges and legislatures acknowledge the difficulty of
this debate by leaving it to normal democratic processes?" 

– From Hands Off Constitutions: This Isn’t the Way to Ban Same-Sex Marriage, by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Washington Post, Tues. Sept. 5, 2006, p. A19 (emphasis added).