Steven Waldman at Beliefnet suggests that gays might take up the challenge of advocating covenant marriages – at the very least, work to toughen the terms of existing marriage, make it harder to get into and out of marriages, and so on.
Fine with me.
K-Lo at NRO checked with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family, and he responded:
First, he woefully misunderstands same-sex marriage opponents' fundamental concerns about same-sex marriage. The concern is not the slippery-slope of where same-sex marriage could lead, but same-sex marriage itself. It deconstructs our understanding of marriage as an institution that solves the paradox of humanity: that we exist in two, male and female, and both need each other . . . and society needs them to need each other. It has no need of same-sex couplings.
Gays think marriage is only about the people in each individual marriage.
Maybe they're right, but lots of people disagree.
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