Posts
Ross Douthat has a recent series of columns that touch on a lot of my ideas about same-sex marriage. On line, he includes some interesting responses as well. I think that for many people their notion of what marriage is and what marriage is for has more or less insensibly changed over roughly the past two decades. I think that formerly the centrality of the marriage-procreation link seemed so obvious that arguments for same-sex marriage appeared not just wrong, but incoherent--that certainly was the case for me. If society has now moved to the idea that marriage is essentially the union of soul-mates and that procreation, while often associated with marriage, is not central to it, then--for better or for worse-- it should be clear that any two people, regardless of gender, are entitled to participation in the institution. I prefer the old definition, but so what, if that is not the current definition in society at large?
No comments:
Post a Comment