According to American icon and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, “The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”

This bit of wisdom is seen in many of America’s policies and traditions, including the abolition of slavery and our respect for religious liberty.

It’s also why marriage deserves special attention from government — and its redefinition does not.

What is it about marriage that earns special attention from government when no other sexual relationship does? As David told Huffington Post reporter Jen Bendery last month on a panel at The Daily Caller, marriage has numerous benefits that are exclusive to heterosexual relationships.

Here are four reasons same-sex marriage will never measure up to the real thing:

1. The Species Only Survives Because Of Heterosexual Relationships

Marriage produces more taxpayers. By providing a social stamp of approval and public policies friendly to marriage, government is encouraging the survival of the human species and the creation of more tax dollars in the environment that — study after study has found — is best for children.

While same-sex couples may have strong feelings for each other, such feelings can never translate into new life without using heterosexual-based technology like IVF. It is mind-bogglingly hypocritical that the LGBTQ community thinks using IVF — which requires male and female components to make a human life — is a solution that justifies their barren relationships.

But even without the hypocrisy, IVF is not a solution to the inability of same-sex couples to have children. Rather, IVF opens up a brand new tier of moral problems, as it puts unborn children into the position of being sold like slaves and, even worse, killed when they are not implanted.

2. Think Of The Children

Second, contrary to popular reports, people raised by same-sex couples are not as well developed as those raised by married parents. Comprehensive research published earlier this year by Catholic University of America researcher Dr. Paul Sullins found that “emotional problems were over twice as prevalent…for children with same-sex parents than for children with opposite-sex parents.”

Sullins’ data are bolstered by personal stories from the International Children’s Rights Institute. Founded by bisexual University of California professor Roberto Oscar Lopez, it promotes “basic rights,” including “a right to a mother and a father, wherever possible” for every child. Earlier this year, Lopez — who is married with three children — and five other people raised by same-sex parents filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court asking it to not change the legal definition of marriage.

Their reason? It’s bad for children.

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