THE IRRELEVANCE OF GAY PROMISCUITY: Ramesh Ponnuru at National Review's blog

David Brooks's argument for gay marriage begins with a characterization of sexual promiscuity as spiritually deadening. Gay marriage is worth supporting, on his view, either because it would actually reduce promiscuity or because it would make a symbolic statement against it (I'm not sure which). I wonder whether there are other cases in which Brooks believes the government should adopt policies to combat spiritually deadening practices simply because they are spiritually deadening. I also wonder how solid the spiritual, or even moral, case against promiscuity is. ...

I don't, by the way, think the argument against gay marriage based on gay promiscuity works either. ...Why should a committed, monogamous gay couple be refused marriage simply because other gay couples would be less faithful than they? ...
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[Eve notes: Wow, I can't remember another time when I've disagreed with every paragraph of a Ponnuru post! More soon....]
posted by Eve at 5:07 PM VOTE

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