THE UNBEATABLE INFERTILITY ARGUMENT: Maggie Gallagher
Thanks Gabriel for your post. I think it allows us to "achieve disagreement" at last. Simply put I do not think, without doing violence to marriage in another way, that it is possible to approve of same-sex marriage and disapprove of same-sex parenting. Comments anyone?
Secondly, if baby-making is underinclusive, as the lawyers say, in marriage, "taking care of another person," is even more so. Many of the people we are most called upon to take care of, we are actually forbidden to marry i.e. other family members. And why (to bring up Eve's question) just one other person? If the purpose of marriage is to take care of another surely it is better, morally and socially, to take care of more than one person rather than just one person?
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