MORE ON STEPHANIE COONTZ: Elizabeth Marquardt

NYT op-ed today:

Gays and lesbians simply looked at the revolution heterosexuals had wrought and noticed that with its new norms, marriage could work for them, too.

She's right, to a point. But none of the other changes have required redefining marriage with gender neutral terms that make us unable to speak of children's real needs for their own mother and father. Same-sex marriage requires editing the importance of mothers and fathers out of family law and out of our cultural dialog. Thus a change understood to be small, simply incorporating a few gays and lesbians at the margins into the marriage system, will be massive, requiring an entirely new way of talking about children's needs that flies in the face of what social science evidence and sensitive observations of children's lives commonly tell us.

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