I didn't understand it that way. I understood him to be arguing that "gay" marriage is beside the point. Real marriage is the point: exclusive, permanent, and life-giving marriage. Real marriage didn't fall apart because of a small percentage of nutty people doing sick things with each other. Real marriage fell apart because an absolute majority of people don't want it.
In my opinion, "the right," whatever that includes, can't fundamentally affect the direction of the country, because they don't want to.
Was it you, frapster, in a post above, who said "gelatinous mass of contradiction"? Raucous round of applause! People recognize the social damage caused by easy divorce, and they certainly don't like it when their spouse up and dumps them ... but they don't want the law changed, because they want the option open. People recognize the social pathologies of fatherless "families," but they like free sex outside marriage.
People don't want an "anything goes" society, but they don't want a "theocracy" - I'm quoting some poster on some thread. That is, they don't want "anything goes," but they want everything to go that they, personally, want, while somehow precluding the things they don't want ... yet. When they decide they do want it, then anyone who disapproves is a "theocrat."
I will close this rant with some wise words from Sarah Palin: "Build the America you want in your home ... and keep looking up." (not claiming the quote is exact)
First, excellent Sarah Palin quote.
Next, You know that "divorce" is a homosexual marriage argument, and I know, so it's highly likely the author knows it. It's not a new idea. His comment about Paris Hilton and Elton John demonstrates it. "The institution of marriage is crumbling beneath us; it’s under attack, it’s mortally wounded, it’s sprawled out on the pavement with bullet wounds in its back, coughing up blood and gasping for breath. And guess who did this? It wasn’t Perez Hilton or Elton John, I can tell you that."
Four and a half years ago at the dinner for my 50th class reunion—our class president bragged about how everyone at the head table had been divorced at least once. I went to a Catholic High School.
That's what I read too - and yes, 'gelatinous mass of contradiction' was from me... not every day I can work that into a conversation. But it was appropriate. ;-)
I will close this rant with some wise words from Sarah Palin: "Build the America you want in your home ... and keep looking up."
Exactly! (even if not the exact quote)
Bingo. Can't take the time to find it, but there was an Atlantic article to this effect IIRC about 20 years ago summing up this point, the negative consequences of which still haven't sunk in to the population at large enough to seek a correction.