ZOMG! Once again an attempt to ammend the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage has failed in the U.S. Senate! OMGZ! Puhlease! If the government really wanted to protect marriage, they could start by making it harder to get married in the first place and harder to get unmarried once you got married. Making adultery a criminal offense would probably help too. Oh, and they could actually do something about the very very high costs associated with raising children.
In a world where the front page of CNN has a link to a story about Pitt and Jolie denying rumors of their getting married, after just having a baby no less, I hardly think that men wanting to marry men and women wanting to marry women is a threat to heterosexual marriage. Our society’s failure to support marriage has nothing to do with gay people, who one would think must be crazy in some sense to want to embrace it. But far from crazy, the passion exhibited in their drive to marry must surely tell us something about human nature and the things that are really important.