Where does this Sanchez live?
He lives in Washington, D.C.
Sanchez claims that any problems with polygamy or polyamory would be grounds for banning those practices. Yet I showed in "The Coming Battle," and have shown repeatedly, that the rights-based grounds on which we are being given gay marriage will not be able to exclude polygamy or polyamory.
Sanchez chastises me for my "breathtaking stupidity," my "heroic inanity," my being "brain dead," etc., but his litany of insults does little to disguise the superficiality of his argument. Sanchez admits that he doesn't know what to do with my claim that the analogy between civil rights and gay marriage is flawed. The point of my earlier writings on gay marriage (of which Sanchez appears to be ignorant) is that skin color has no effect on the functioning of marriage as an institution, but that sexual orientation will. Sanchez needs to address the arguments I make in my Commentary article, "What Is Wrong With Gay Marriage," in the gay-marriage debate, and in pieces like "Gay in Hollywood." But of course, he does not. Sanchez also seems to be unfamiliar with the well-established idea that the state's "compelling interest" in marriage, and in the children marriage produces, entitles it to abandon strict neutrality in structuring this institution.
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Stanley Kurtz is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.