The world’s largest organization of anthropologists have responded to President Bush’s charge that same-sex marriage posed a threat to our civilization. The executive board of the American Anthropological Association issued a statement reading, “The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.”