MORE MARRIAGE PROPOSALS: Kathryn Jean Lopez

at National Review's blog:

Steve Waldman, over at BeliefNet, wrote last week that: “The most dramatic step would be for gay marriage activists to endorse the concept of Covenant Marriage.”

I asked Glenn T. Stanton, director of Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family what he thought:

In many ways, Steven’s piece is similar to the Blankenhorn/Rauch NYT piece, but his seeks a compromise in a more ham-handed way. First, he woefully misunderstands same-sex marriage opponents' fundamental concerns about same-sex marriage. The concern is not the slippery-slope of where same-sex marriage could lead, but same-sex marriage itself. It deconstructs our understanding of marriage as an institution that solves the paradox of humanity: that we exist in two, male and female, and both need each other . . . and society needs them to need each other. It has no need of same-sex couplings. And since when did we shift the discussion from ideals to compromise? When the other side can achieve any of their goals sans judicial fiat, then maybe they will have a position to contribute anything to compromise.

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