SSM AND DIVORCE: Eve replies to Andrew Sullivan

Well, not so much a reply, as a set of questions. I'd be interested to know what Sullivan thinks of divorce in itself, rather than divorce as a useful stick to beat "evangelical" (...Catholic) opponents of same-sex marriage.

So, my questions for him: Are there, in some meaningful sense, too many divorces in America today? If so, should anything be done about that? If so, what?

What are his objections to barring no-fault divorce? Are those objections independent from his case for same-sex marriage, or inherently intertwined with it? (To oversimplify: An independent objection might be, "You'll never get people to agree to bar no-fault divorce, so talking about it is pointless"; a linked objection might be, "People should have the right to marry whomever they want for as long as they want," which would lead one to support both no-fault divorce and same-sex marriage.)

What does he think of Morse's account of three reasons the divorce rate has spurred the push for same-sex marriage?

posted by Eve at 4:08 PM VOTE

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