"Perserving Marriage in Substance, Not Just Name"

In yesterday's NRO, Ryan Anderson writes that "[t]he Prop 8 debate is not a clash between civil liberties and religion."  In his essay, he addresses the arguments made by a certain Pepperdine law professor who is known to all who read MOJ.  Anderson begins: 

Should the state treat marriages the same way it treats baptisms and bar mitzvahs — as purely religious practices properly left to religious institutions? That’s what some are now arguing. If the state didn’t create marriage, they reason, then religion must have; and the state shouldn’t endorse sectarian religious beliefs. But their argument is profoundly flawed.

For the full essay, click here.