THE DIVORCE THING: Maggie v. Andrew

This is as good excuse as any to post my response to Andrew Sullivan's argument, that if we really cared about marriage we would ban divorce not unisex marriage. Excerpt below, essay here.

I am not sure gay marriage would matter to people who are now married, people whose ideas and values were already formed along the cultural norms of their time. But I am sure unisex marriage will dramatically affect the cultural norms and values of the next generation in ways that will encourage divorce and disconnect marriage further from childbearing. Young people today do not reject marriage, but they are extremely tempted to redefine it in ways the exclude the childbearing dimension. Marriage is about love between two adults. Children? They are another matter entirely.

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