“On gay marriage, empathy is a two-way street”

Rod Dreher writing in the Dallas Morning News: “Perhaps society will embrace [this new understanding of marriage] – but that’s exactly what it is, and traditionalists should not be faulted for intuiting that the moral and cultural implications of this shift are likely to be far-reaching and imperfectly understood. At a time in which the traditional understanding of marriage, its duties and its obligations, has been breaking down under a variety of cultural assaults, it should surprise no one that most voters are afraid of radical change . . . Culture precedes politics.”