IS MARRIAGE A RIGHT? Maureen Mullarkey

[Maureen Mullarkey is a painter and critic in New York City.]

The discussion of marriage should never have been allowed onto the platform of rights. The argument over whether or not marriage is a right is skewered out of the starting gate. Marriage is an institution. Every institution has requirements for membership.

Homosexuals already have the freedom to marry. They choose not to exercise that freedom in order to live as they choose with whomever--or however many whoevers--they choose.

Engaging in the discourse of rights is, in itself, a half-surrender. Once the issue is phrased in the language of rights, we all know the eventual outcome. In a rights-besotted culture, the winner will always be the side that wants to extend rights, not limit them.
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