“Over the last few hundred years, people who were not in heterosexual marriages with children have not been seen as true adults or accorded social and political power. In the postmodern world, that definition is now being challenged socially, legally and scientifically by reproductive technologies. To [those people], they deeply [feel] that a full person or a full citizen is someone who is heterosexually married and produces children. And they cannot accept that you would extend that definition to someone else.”
- Prof. Gilbert Herdt (San Francisco University), NPR