[Thrownatbirth]

In a 2000 year context, it’s just a fad. Like the Inquisition, which was longer but less fabulous, people will eventually regain their theological and moral bearings.

[orinoco]

Agree, this is a secular progressive attempt to legislate their morality and to attack traditional morality. The only real greater interest the state has in marriage between a man and a woman is the protection of the family so that children can be raised, with minimum government interference, to be well adjusted members of society.
Only a fraction of a percent of people will actually become same sex "marriage" partners. So what is the greater good?
People will eventually make a distinction between same sex marriage and a marriage between one man and one woman. Perhaps using a different word to describing each relationship. So temporarily the progressives have won a battle in their war against traditional values and morality but the emphasis is on the word temporarily!!

[stanne]

You said it.

Today we are reading book 4 of 12 of Homer’s Odyssey for my daughter’s pre-ninth grade summer reading.

I teach literature to middle and high schoolers. People (especially some teaching colleagues) cannot believe that the likes of Shakespeare, Jane Austen and R.L. Stevenson can drag them away from the media competition, but it is true. Of course, it takes a bit to get them involved.

Good stories of virtue and heroism are more appealing than ever in the face of the “competition”.

It’s very encouraging.