Friday, December 17, 2010
What is Marriage?
Last week Robby George, Sherif Girgis, and Ryan Anderson posted a new paper, "What is Marriage?" Kenji Yoshino responds here, calling it "the best argument against gay marriage," but ultimately rejecting it. George et al. have now replied to Yoshino.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/12/what-is-marriage.html
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Thanks for this link.
The argument that changing the law of marriage doesn't hurt anyone is incredibly dishonest because it actually defies the whole concept of socialization. We learn as we mature, learning first from our parents and then learning from our neighbors and the broader society. To clarify the point, I am married at 68 years of age. No law is going to change our marriage of forty-three years. My children are all married, and it is unlikely that any change of the law would have much influence on them either, but their children range in ages, it this moment, from four months to sixteen years. Who knows what their future children will experience in the middle decades of this century (what I like to call "this millenium so far").
But one thing that no rational person can say is that their interpersonal relations will be defined in isolation from the laws and conventions of the society around them. The single most essential function of society is to teach, starting with the tiny home society. But the gays are attempting to deny that society teaches. That claim is entirely dishonest and incredible. They might as well deny that the sun rises in the East.