CANADIAN COURT DECISION: Maggie Gallagher

In its decision today the Canadian supreme court refused to answer the most important question: What will same-sex marriage do to marriage as a social institution?

Is the great, historic, cross-cultural understanding of marriage as the union of husband and wife rooted only in animus and discrimination? Or is there a real deeply rooted human need for a social institution that specifically addresses those people whose sexual attractions and relationships produce new life?

Children need mothers and fathers, and marriage is the way societies everywhere get that important good for children. Same-sex marriage amounts to an official declaration that marriage in Canada is now about something else: some other adult agendas and needs.

Gay marriage is the debate that just won't go away, because it is not primarily about homosexuality at all: it is about the purpose of marriage. The ongoing, urgent need for a better, stronger, richer marriage culture, one more oriented towards generativity and the needs of children, can't be ruled away by any court.

posted by Eve at 3:18 PM VOTE

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