The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Love

The Politics of Love

In an opinion piece in the New York Daily News yesterday, Seth Forman presented Five arguments against gay marriage: Society must brace for corrosive change. Your correspondent is still flummoxed by the fact that people put any credence into the types of arguments that were used to deny women the right to own property or vote, to deny "mixed race" marriages, to support segregation and Jim Crow laws, etc., etc. How can these arguments hold water in a country that...