Jonathan Rauch on WSJ: “Gay Marriage Is Good for America”
Jonathan Rauch has this article on the Wall Street Journal. He writes:
. . . America needs more marriages, not fewer, and the best way to encourage marriage is to encourage marriage, which is what society does by bringing gay couples inside the tent. A good way to discourage marriage, on the other hand, is to tarnish it as discriminatory in the minds of millions of young Americans. Conservatives who object to redefining marriage risk redefining it themselves, as a civil-rights violation . . .
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The best way to encourage marriage is to not flaunt sex out of wedlock. When watching TV, most sexual encounters are outside the boundaries of marriage, which is what our teenagers have been watching for decades. TV rarely depicts consequences for sex outside of a committed marriage. Just what are some of those consequences? pregnancies, babies, abortions, abandonment, joblessness, abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, just to name a few. The WSJ author has it wrong–homosexual marriage does not eliminate any of these consequences of sex outside of a committed marriage.