RAUCH REVIEW: Tom Sylvester replies to Eve

[Superbrief reply: Hrm, it's pretty obvious to me that ssm, if and where legalized, will be presented/promoted as in essence the same as any other marriage. I also wonder if we may disagree on how deep and radical it is to claim that a unisex marriage is in essence the same as a heterosexual one. IOW to what extent can this claim really be paralleled with remarriage. Not sure about that and have not slept in much too long so am possibly making no sense, sorry. --Eve]

...She writes:
"Honoring intentionally motherless and fatherless families as marriages -- saying they are interchangeable with mother-father families -- denies these deep realities."

Two short responses to this. First, there are plenty of motherless and fatherless marriages -- those without kids. Second, I just don't accept the notion that legalizing same-sex marriages means "saying that they are interchangeable with mother-father families." Remarriage is legal, but I don't think that means we have to say that a stepparent families are interchangeable with biological mother-father families.

Is there an inherent contradiction between supporting bio mother-father families as the ideal for children and supporting same-sex marriage? There's a tension, sure, but are those two views really so irreconciliable?

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posted by Eve at 11:07 PM VOTE

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