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To: little jeremiah

Here’s some more:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/451noxve.asp

...Inevitably, the pattern discernible in the statistics is borne out in the statements of the activists. Many of those who most vigorously champion same-sex marriage say that they do so precisely in the hope of dethroning once and for all the traditional “conjugal institution.”

That phrase comes from Judith Stacey, professor of sociology at New York University and a major expert witness testifying in courts and elsewhere for gay marriage. She views the fight for same-sex marriage as the “vanguard site” for rebuilding family forms. The author of journal articles like “Good Riddance to ‘The Family,’” she argues forthrightly that “if we begin to value the meaning and quality of intimate bonds over their customary forms, there are few limits to the kinds of marriage and kinship patterns people might wish to devise.”

Similarly, David L. Chambers, a law professor at the University of Michigan widely published on family issues, favors gay marriage for itself but also because it would likely “make society receptive to the further evolution of the law.” What kind of evolution? He writes, “If the deeply entrenched paradigm we are challenging is the romantically linked man-woman couple, we should respect the similar claims made against the hegemony of the two-person unit and against the romantic foundations of marriage.”

Examples could be multiplied—the recently deceased Ellen Willis, professor of journalism at NYU and head of its Center for Cultural Reporting and Criticism, expressed the hope that gay marriage would “introduce an implicit revolt against the institution into its very heart, further promoting the democratization and secularization of personal and sexual life”—but they can only illustrate the point already established by the large-scale international comparisons: Empirically speaking, gay marriage goes along with the erosion, not the shoring up, of the institution of marriage.


71 posted on 08/14/2010 6:50:23 PM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: massmike; little jeremiah

There are so many that dismiss the agenda as unbelievable when just a little research would open their eyes............I think.


73 posted on 08/14/2010 6:54:17 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: massmike

Excellent. I’ll add them to my collection.

It’s clear to anyone who can read and wants to know the truth.


76 posted on 08/14/2010 7:01:31 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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