The Nordic track COVER STORY: State approval of homosexual marriage in Scandinavia contributed to the virtual disappearance of real marriage By Gene Edward Veith No matter what happens in the homosexual-marriage/civil-union controversies, marriage as an institution isn't going away, is it? Yes, it is. Marriage has already all but disappeared in Scandinavia. Other Europeans are heading down that Nordic track. And, if gay marriage is legalized, so will we. That is the conclusion of Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose article "The End of Marriage in Scandinavia" was published in The Weekly Standard. Sweden was the...