IT’S RARE THAT I AGREE WITH DAN SAVAGE.

I am not being paid to tell you this, but the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy has a model adoption statute which institutes marriage preferences (PDF) without prohibiting anyone from adopting. Given that more states prohibit marriage preferences than require them (PDF), I suppose we can be grateful that the Arkansas total prohibition on unmarried adoption is a bizarre outlier.

I doubt that will comfort any children whose adoption is prevented by this horrifyingly blithe and simplistic statute. The marriage movement should not merely withhold support from this kind of initiative but actively disavow it.