Until last year, gays and lesbians were banned from getting married in most of the 50 states in the US. One of the primary arguments used to justify the bans against gay marriage, was that children would suffer. It was claimed that marriage had one purpose, to produce children. Here, the child is being used as a political tool. Children, as the innocent beings that they are, are used to rally people into a cause, even when the child has no reason to be mixed up in political affairs. One of my sources is the Tapia piece “Breeding Nationalism”. Children of victims from 9/11 were highlighted to arouse sympathy from the masses. In the same way that 9/11 children were shown to suffer because they did not have both of their parents, a parallel
