John (pro-SSM) says
David Brooks said it best in one of his earlier NYTimes columns: we shouldn’t merely have a right to marriage; society should be pressing gay couples to marry. We need the marriage culture too. Though we don’t have to worry about unplanned pregnancies we do have to worry about STDs, AIDS and the children we adopt. Adultery affects our families as much as it affects straights. Sex outside of marriage should be discouraged.
Laurie (contra-SSM) says
The questions in this article also elide more basic discussions about the ontology of homosexuality and whether a condition constituted by subjective feelings and volitional acts should be included in anti-discrimination policy and law. To recommend such a discussion is not an endorsement of ill-treatment of those who experience same-sex attraction and act on those feelings. Rather, the intent is to draw attention to the illegitimacy and danger of allowing a condition so constituted to be added to policy and law. Why just “sexual orientation,” which is a dubious and proposition-laden rhetorical weapon? Why not include any and all other conditions constituted by powerful, unchosen, and seemingly intractable feelings?
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