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[electricland]

In honour of Canada's new marriage legislation, an interview with the author of a new book on marriage -- well worth reading.

It seems to me tremendously perverse to say that the institution of marriage is threatened by the one group that is clamoring to enter it, when so many heterosexuals are refusing to enter it. But I think that there's a lot of magical thinking going on in people who believe that we should campaign against gay and lesbian marriage. They are I think arguing that if we could just draw this one line in the sand we might be able to reverse all the other changes that have occurred in marriage. But in fact, I would argue that gay and lesbian marriage is not at all a cause of the changes in married life.

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[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

I think the genuine fear that the gods will smite us if we allow it to happen, is a big part of it too. Why the gods would pick this one issue to smite on when we so brazenly violating so many of the more basic laws, I can't fathom.

[swestrup]

They are hoping to prevent the kind of moral chaos which is currently sweeping Denmark.