Re: Gay Rights vs. Religious Rights

I’m not sure that Jody is correct to say that “At this point, it appears the question isn’t whether same-sex marriage is going to be imposed on the nation by the courts—but how far the demand for acquiescence from the rest of us is going to be pushed.”

The majority of states have enacted some form of marriage protection, at either the constitutional or statutory level, and public opinion—-even in CA—-is still in favor of traditional marriage. Yes, the younger generations are more inclined than the older generations to support same-sex marriage. But with solid arguments they can be persuaded.

To that end, I’ll link to two short articles that offer some publicly-accessible lines of reasoning about same-sex marriage.

Here is a review of David Blankenhorn’s book The Future of Marriage that I co-authored with Robert P. George.

And here is an article I wrote after the release of two documents: “Beyond Gay Marriage” (bad) and the “Princeton Principles on Marriage” (good).

Both articles provide summaries of what the best social science, anthropology, and philosophy have to say in defense of marriage as traditionally conceived, along with analyses of where same-sex marriage will take us.