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Eve Tushnet writes:
I’m working on an article about how young adults are increasingly likely to call themselves pro-life, and increasingly likely to support gay marriage. There are a lot of narratives you could tell about how someone comes to hold either or both of these beliefs; I want to get some sense of which narratives [...]
When I wrote this post, I forgot that I had linked earlier to a post from JL’s old blog that gives an especially compelling statement of the kind of point I was trying to make:
Marriage, as a political/societal tradition has at its core the truth that it is essential for society that family units be [...]
Filed under: conservatism, family, marriage
Do read David Schaengold, who also has more here. I suppose I don’t – or at least, try not to – share the conviction that it’s simply impossible for our society to take on the question of what sorts of goods are embodied by homosexual unions, but as I could have made much clearer in [...]
Filed under: marriage
There’s one key moment in his diavlog with Matt Yglesias where James does to the “Let’s get government out of the marriage business altogether” response to the same-sex marriage conundrum what Mark Texeira has lately been doing to American League pitching: he destroys it. I’m not going to transcribe his remarks, but [...]
Filed under: government/law, marriage, religion
What Patrick Deneen said:
In my view, the singular focus upon abortion as THE issue over which conservative Catholics will brook no divergence and around which we are called to rally reveals, to my mind, not evidence of robust Catholic culture as much as its absence. It seems to me that - along with the opposition [...]
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Daniel is right:
Mr. Bush espoused a horrifyingly heterodox religious vision, one far more akin to the messianic Americanism that forms part of what Bacevich has called national security ideology than it is to anything that could fairly be called orthodoxy. To the extent that Linker’s favorite targets, the so-called “theocons,” were more or [...]
A couple of weeks ago, after I posted my unpublished same-sex marriage essay, Eve Tushnet and I had a nice e-mail back-and-forth in which she remarked, among other things, that given that essay’s overall argument it was pretty silly of me to claim at the end that the debate over marriage was nothing but a [...]
Filed under: marriage, philosophy
by JL Wall
Now, maybe this is because I’m coming at this argument from a Jewish perspective and tradition, but something seems flawed when Andrew Sullivan writes,
But once that is conceded, marriage equality is not only inevitable but logically necessary, and drawing the marital line at those who never can reproduce - as opposed to those who [...]
… against Andrew Sullivan, who writes:
Yes, there was perhaps a real value in a world where everything reflected the same widely accepted Truth, and all questions had answers, and all answers were a function of religious obedience, and a brilliant Catholic interpretation of Aristotle. But Rod, like all other mature Westerners, must know that that [...]
Filed under: marriage, philosophy
E.D. Kain objects to Ed Whelan’s complaints about the “lawless judicial attack on traditional marriage and on representative government” manifested in yesterday’s Iowa ruling:
Quite honestly, I have difficulty following this logic. First of all, the court was taking into account the constitutionality of the ban on gay marriage in the first place, and quite rightly [...]
Filed under: conservatism, government/law, marriage