"MARITAL EVOLUTION": David Blakeslee

In reading Andrew Sullivan's remarks I wish to draw the attention of the reader to the following phrase: "four decades of marital evolution." This phrase strongly implies inevitability and progress. It suggest that those who oppose gay marriage are fighting some sort of good which is developing. To use another metaphor: those who are against gay marriage are like those who attempt to impose a dictatorship on a fledgling democracy; or another way: attempting to abort a developing fetus.

Mr. Sullivan is uninformed about the consequences of "four decades of marital evolution." Better phrased, these are four decades of family destruction. His phrases frame the conversation with the indefensible argument that Western Societies have been improving steadily on marriage and the family during the last four decades. What facts support such a bold assertion? They are thin at best: easier divorce laws to help people escape abusive marriages; equal property rights...are there others? The first benefit is exploited by those who are merely unhappy in marriages (it is overused) and the second is rightly called a benefit...although as applied, through no-fault divorce, women are consistently impoverished through divorce...so the application of the latter is ineffective.

I wish to thank Mr. Sullivan for participating in this discourse. Although I disagree with his analysis in this situation, I find him a thoughtful and reasonable contributor on a wide variety of topics.

posted by Eve at 8:31 PM VOTE

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