What Brings Us Together Today

We have had exactly this discussion many times in our house, and could have written Den Beste’s post for him.  Thanks to Jay Tea for pointing it out and, naturally, being on the same page.

It’s about impatience.  The activists are so fired up they don’t see the impressive pace of social change and public perception unfolding before their very eyes.  Within another generation, they’d have what they want through the correct means, and most people won’t think twice about the concept.  There’s no reason for it to be particularly contentious.

Of course, then there’s the angle of “what does the government have to do with marriage anyway” as Deb and I have both written about for a long time.  Well, besides the provision of courts and enforcing of contracts and stuff.  But apart from that, social constructs and contracts are nobody’s business, whether you want to be gay or straight of polygamous or have our favorite idea, a line marriage.

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