By excluding gay parents, the right risks losing the family argument

By excluding gay parents, the right risks losing the family argument

Abigail Adams, America’s second First Lady, famously urged her husband at the Continental Congress in 1776 to “remember the ladies,” entreating him to be “more more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” That same spirit — to broaden our embrace of liberty with each generation — has marked the arc of American progress. From immigrants to Black Americans, women to Native Americans, the nation has moved, however imperfectly, toward e…