EXCEPT he is wrong. It DOES matter what marriage is. I do NOT care if government on all levels gets out of the marriage business, which seems to be the libertarian argument.
But it DOES matter that marriage has a specific definition: the union between a man and a woman. It is the only workable family unit that assures continuation of the species and of any society. It offers a model of a family unit that works, not for the benefit of the couple but for the benefit of the children. That it is not perfect does not change its desirability. That heterosexulas abandon their marrages on whims, only proves the strength of the institution as a device to raise and comfort children.
Homosexuals do not get to change that.
“I do NOT care if government on all levels gets out of the marriage business, which seems to be the libertarian argument.”
That’s the small l libertarian argument as they know the state can punish you for not buying into whatever impossibility the state decides to call marriage at the time. The big L libertarians seem to be completely hypocritical on the marriage issue, as the whole ‘gay marriage’ fight is about punishing those who disagree with their nonsense with the power of the state, which they seem to have no problem with.
Freegards